“The Addiction” quotes
(1995)
Title The Addiction
Year 1995
Director Abel Ferrara
Genre Horror
Year 1995
Director Abel Ferrara
Genre Horror
All actors – Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli, Jamal Simmons, Robert W. Castle, Michael A. Fella, Louis Katz
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Dante described it perfectly. Bleeding trees waiting for Judgment Day, where we can all hang ourselves from our own branches. It's not that easy... "Doctor". To find rest takes a real genius. It's all a matter of discernment. Now, R.C. Sproul said we're not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners. In more accessible terms,... (continue)(continue reading)
“We drink to escape the fact we're alcoholics. Existence is the search for relief from our habit, and our habit is the only relief we can find.”
“To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”
“Essence is revealed through praxis. The philosopher's words, his ideas, his actions, cannot be separated from his value, his meaning. That's what it's all about, isn't it? Our impact on other egos.”
“Dependency is a marvelous thing. It does more for the soul than any formulation of doctoral material.”
“You think hell shuts down after a couple of years? You think what you've done isn't, isn't floating around somewhere in space? What makes you think you've been forgiven for lying to your mother as a child, huh? Or of having slept with married men in adultery or paying taxes that turn Central America into a mud puddle, huh?”
“Mankind has striven to exist beyond good and evil, from the beginning. And you know what they found? Me.”
“God, forgive me.”
“Now I see, good lord, how we must look from out there. Our addiction is evil. The propensity for this evil lies in our weakness before it. Kierkegaard was right, there is an awful precipice before us. But he was wrong about the leap, there's a difference between jumping and being pushed. You reach a point where you are forced to face your own...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Kathleen Conklin: What's gonna happen to me?
- Peina: Read the books. Sartre, Beckett, Burroughs. Who do you think they're talking about? You think they're works of fiction?”
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