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Anthony Kiedis Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Love, Apology, Sadness, Inability
“I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Problems, Challenges, Acceptance, strength
“Every true artist is at war with the world.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Creativity, Innovation, Exploring the Possibilites, Individuality
“It started when we were little kids.
Free spirits, but already
tormented by our own hands
given to us by our parents.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Child Abuse, Bad Parents
“I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Transformation, Hopeful, Resilience, Survivor
“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Writing, Writer Quotes
“Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Adolesence, Teenage life, Young People
“I think kids are very impressionable and, whether you like it or not, you become impressed upon by your parents.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Parenting, Children Looking At Their Parents
“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: I Hate Myself, Pain
“When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Healing, Addiction, Mental Illness
“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: humanity, Chaos Of Life
“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: LDR
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Alcoholic, Assholes, Ego
“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Defensiveness, Criticism, Listening, Acceptance
“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: discrimination, Racial Bias, classism
“I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Exhausted, Giving Up
“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcoholism, Mental Health
“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog, or I ripped my pants on the fence post, or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over - it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Cheating, Lazy, Shortcuts In Life
“I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Drugs, Pleasure, Pursuit of Happiness, Life Tips
“One of the techniques they teach to get rid of a resentment toward somebody is to pray for him or her to get everything that you want for yourself in life-to be loved, to be successful, to be healthy, to be rich, to be wonderful, to be happy, to be alive with the light and the love of the universe. It's a paradox, but it works. You sit there and pray for the person you can't stand to get everything on earth that you would want for yourself, and one day you're like 'I don't feel anything bad toward this person.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Prayers, resentment, Healing
“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about the process of the comeback, and that becomes an element in the whole cycle of addiction. Once you've beaten yourself down with cocaine and heroin, and you manage to stop and walk out of the muck you begin to get your mind and body strong and reconnect with your spirit. The oppressive feeling of being a slave to the drugs is still in your mind, so by comparison, you feel phenomenal. You're happy to be alive, smelling the air and seeing the beauty around you...You have a choice of what to do. So you experience this jolt of joy that you're not where you came from and that in and of itself is a tricky thing to stop doing. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you know that every time you get clean, you'll have this great new feeling.

Cut to: a year later, when you've forgotten how bad it was and you don't have that pink-cloud sensation of being newly sober.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Addiction, Relapse
“When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I've seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they're controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it's not them.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Alcohol, Recovering Addict
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