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Devil in a Coma

Book by Mark Lanegan · 9 quotes · Dying, Illness, Music

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“The dysfunctional home life I enjoyed made me place me reliance strictly on myself and nobody else, I trusted no one and no one should have trusted me either, I was only in it for yours truly and stood directly in the centre of the world, the only wolf in the pack.”

Trust Isolation Mistrust

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“I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so.”

Desire Lust The Day After

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“The harsh injustice of ageing and the helplessness of infirmity was more than I could take. I swore I would die before I ended up like that.”

Dying Old Age Ageing

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“Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back.”

Death Dying Near Death Experiences

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“More and more this was reminiscent of an unending stretch in country jail that I couldn't shake, with my trial date being intentionally undetermined, constantly moved around just to keep me inside. It felt like the longer I was kept here the worse I got, not the other way around.”

Waiting Illness Uncertainty Covid 19

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“Music was no longer my friend but I left my headphones on round the clock just to keep the outside noise out of my head.”

Music Noise Disconnected

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“My interest in music was non-existent. I never put on a record or picked up a guitar or sat at the keyboard and didn't care if I ever did again.”

Music Illness Noise Disconnection Disinterest

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“I've never enjoyed being fully present, a muted reality has been the landscape I've preferred and mainly inhabited forever. Sure, feeling is good, but not too much, and if someone is able to get away with suffering devastating loss, massive regret, heartache, physical agony, mental instability, isolation, humiliation, abuse, incarceration, depression, tragedy etc. with a blanket of chemical protection, then who can say it's wrong?”

Addiction Numb Numbness Muted

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“I turn back to the page to obsessively invent still more damaged and heroic versions of myself before the fire dies out or the well runs dry, constructing imaginary worlds.”

Writing Writing Life Writing Quote

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