Top 67 Sheff Quotes
#1. There's nobody as sexy as Robinson Cano in the box. I had a coach, Chris Sheff, who always told me to be as sexy as you can in the box.
Bryce Harper
#2. I don't want you to worry about protecting my feelings or your father's or anybody's. When you were little you always tried to make everyone ahppy. Then it was like one day you just exploded.
Nic Sheff
#3. In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.
Will Sheff
#4. I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.
David Sheff
#5. They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. the problem with being human isn't really so temporary.
Nic Sheff
#6. I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
David Sheff
#7. We go out into this fucked up world together.
Nic Sheff
#8. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.
David Sheff
#9. The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.
David Sheff
#10. I feel just, you know, defeated.
Nic Sheff
#11. Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully ... There are millions of treacherous moments.
David Sheff
#12. They don't have to struggle like I do - or maybe that's just me comparing my goddamn insides to everyone else's outsides.
Nic Sheff
#13. This stigma associated with drug use
the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic
has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
David Sheff
#14. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...
David Sheff
#15. We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
David Sheff
#16. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.
Nic Sheff
#17. When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.
Will Sheff
#18. Now is now ... There is nothing but now and I try to hold on to that. The past is gone, the future hasn't happened yet. This, right here, is all there is.
Nic Sheff
#19. And that leaves you with an interesting choice ... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life ... ?
Nic Sheff
#20. Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.
Will Sheff
#21. It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.
Nic Sheff
#22. A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
David Sheff
#23. Openness is the first step toward recovery ... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.
David Sheff
#24. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
Nic Sheff
#25. Most people could not pronounce Nintendo and were not interested in learning how.
David Sheff
#26. This is the way that misery does love company: People are relieved to learn that they are not alone in their suffering, that they are part of something larger, in this case, a societal plague [drugs]
an epidemic of children, an epidemic of families.
David Sheff
#27. At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.
David Sheff
#28. I'm not pro-life. I'm very emphatically pro-choice.
Will Sheff
#29. We only have this one moment: NOW.
Nic Sheff
#30. It isn't polyamory that is only for the young and carefree, I explain, but activism.
Elisabeth Sheff
#31. Again, fix the outsides and maybe my insides won't be such a dark place.
Nic Sheff
#32. If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.
Will Sheff
#33. Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.
Nic Sheff
#34. Sure, I buried it. I buried it and buried it and turned away from everything light and sweet and delicate and lovely and became so scared and scarred and burdened and fucked up. But that goodness is there, inside - it must be.
Nic Sheff
#35. And I have this, for now. I just wish I could figure out how to keep my fucking mind from going all over the place - dwelling on all the loss and pain and everything I'VE DONE - then jumping off into the future to how impossible it all seems.
Nic Sheff
#36. The thing is, though, every time I think I'm just gonna give up - that I can't possibly do it, that I'm just going to curl up alone somewhere and waste away, well, I always keep trying. I mean, for some reason I manage to make it through another day and then another day after that.
Nic Sheff
#37. That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.
David Sheff
#38. I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.
Will Sheff
#40. In a way it's like too serene or whatever - too empty. I feel that familiar feeling of being a dark smudge on this otherwise pristine white canvas. There's just no way to blend in out here.
Nic Sheff
#41. Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
David Sheff
#42. I guess I just struggle with belonging to any organization. I always feel like I should be able to do it on my own. My ego tells me I'm better than all this ... I want to rebel against it, though of course, I don't really have any options.
Nic Sheff
#43. How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
David Sheff
#44. I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.
Will Sheff
#45. I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.
Will Sheff
#46. I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
David Sheff
#47. Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle ...
David Sheff
#48. It seems like there is something about sharing your insides with the world that gives other people strength and hope and helps them not to feel so alone.
Nic Sheff
#49. I want to stay hidden in this apartment forever. I want to be kept like a house cat.
Nic Sheff
#50. Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.
Will Sheff
#51. Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.
Nic Sheff
#52. An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
David Sheff
#53. I feel so completely crazy sometimes. I don't know which way I'm facing. All I can do is just shove all this shit to the side and try to move forward.
Nic Sheff
#54. Jasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour.
David Sheff
#55. So you think you should just be able to kill yourself and no one should care? ... You don't think that your actions are gonna affect other people - the people who love you?
Nic Sheff
#56. When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.
David Sheff
#57. If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
Will Sheff
#58. Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?
Nic Sheff
#59. Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.
David Sheff
#60. Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'
Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
David Sheff
#61. Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.
David Sheff
#62. Now is now. There is nothing but now... This, right here, is all there is.
Nic Sheff
#63. It happened so fast - so abruptly. An innocence I'd clung to was lost in that instant.
Nic Sheff
#64. Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying
David Sheff
#65. I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry ...
David Sheff
#66. How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
David Sheff
#67. You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.
Nic Sheff
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