Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, life seems fractured, as if his past had been lived by someone else. It isn't just that the place he now… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Ah don’t really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life’s boring and futile. We… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
