Abel Ferrara Quotes

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an’ death's the other.

Life and hope must cease together.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Who knows but the world may end tonight

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.