26 Quotes by Damien Echols

This is where the calluses on a man’s hand are bigger than his conscience, and dreams get drowned in sweat and tears.

People tend to think of the soul as a man-shaped thing composed of a vague ghostlike substance. In reality it’s more like some God-almighty haunted house, in which the rooms are constantly shifting, moving, and reconfiguring themselves.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t think Jesus’ words were meant to be tied to a brick and chunked through your neighbor’s window at midnight. Anytime you drop a picture of Christ in the mailbox while muttering a self-righteous “This’ll teach ’em,” something has gone terribly wrong.

Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?

In this part of the world all shrines are built to honor the great spirit of mediocrity.

I don’t want a “holy” life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

It’s no laughing matter when you have to fight with the roaches to see who gets the cornflakes.

Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else’s insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down.