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Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life."

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché."

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.




Jerry Stahl Quotes: "It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles"

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I don't really know how to do much else besides write."

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.




Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high."

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "To me, God is like this happy bus driver."

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming."

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.




Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there."

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time."

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing."

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt."

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral."

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.




Jerry Stahl Quotes: "There's no deodorant for desperation."

There's no deodorant for desperation.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes."

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "Creativity is the opposite of TV"

Creativity is the opposite of TV



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending."

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real."

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally."

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing."

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness."

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off."

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world."

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it."

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it."

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room."

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages."

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.



Jerry Stahl Quotes: "Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit."

Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit.