Altered Quotes

“...I am you might say, chemically altered.”
― William Dudley, Antidepressants

“You wore my watch then claimed it as your own, twisting its chain slowly, hovered over the blaze of my torment. You would yell endless regrets across the dance Hall of echoes. So many echoes from a source that swayed smiling…id throw u over & over but you were the yoyo that’s loop strapped itself to the bones of my finger, layers so deep it would take more than a cut to untie your deceit.
Lips bitter but your touch soothing & sweet. My heart would palpitate the moment your presence crept through the walls of my flesh; you held tight the gasps of breath keeping my chest strained with the pressures of your high demands. Not a single thing was enough, you needed me fragmented…”
― L V HALL

“An altered state of mind cleared the fog of educated greed.”
― Steven Magee

“[referring to the paralytic in Luke 5:17-26] The man walks away with a lightness in his step and praise on his lips, for in one encounter with Jesus, he receives both the healing he wanted but didn't dare hope for and the forgiveness he desperately needed but didn't know to ask for. Jesus altered the course of his life, and he walked home no longer a slave to fear but loudly praising God.”
― Asheritah Ciuciu, Uncovering the Love of Jesus: A Lent Devotional

“To overdose is almost like being betrayed by your lover, your greatest friend, your confidante. The substance is your idol, your ultimate satisfaction, the
thing that fuels you in life and keeps you going. If it is given a place in your life, it will fight relentlessly until it becomes the supreme substance of your life. An innocent puff, a momentary euphoria, will eventually become more valuable than every other thing. It starts off as a fling, but the one-night stand gets you pregnant, and in a moment, the course of your entire life is altered.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“If letting a particularly potent person inside you could alter you irrevocably just to have seen or felt it, in which case how does one know when or how to refuse, how to recover.”
― Maggie Nelson

“You'd been dying so long nothing looked like itself:”
― Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems

“Mental illness is a responsibility.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida altered the historical record for the Hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee