137 Quotes by Alice Feeney

Ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s fear postponed to a later date.

The sound of the cork being pulled from the bottle is less satisfying than normal. I hold it in my fingers for a second. From some angles it still looks perfect, you’d never know it was so damaged on the inside.

All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.

Fear of the unknown is always greater than fear of the familiar.

The dead are not so very far away when you really need them; they’re just on the other side of an invisible wall. Grief is only ever yours and so is guilt. It’s not something you can share.

Nobody cares who you used to be; it’s only who you are now that counts. Like yesterday’s news, old versions of a person are easily forgotten.

The world will keep on spinning and the stars will always shine, regardless of whether anyone is looking.

If I’m stable, I presume that means I’m not going to die. Not yet anyway; we all die in the end, I suppose. Life is more terrifying than death in my experience. There’s little point fearing something so inevitable.

If you were to strip us all down to our purest intentions, the lowest common denominator would always be wanting to be listened to, needing to be heard above the noise of modern life.