Top 35 Luke Davies Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t...”

— Luke Davies

2. “Drought brings out the worst in us and it’s easy to hate your fellow human beings.”

— Luke Davies

3. “The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.”

— Luke Davies

4. “You’re beautiful, but you’re somewhere else. That’s okay. I can handle that. But we won’t continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.”

— Luke Davies

5. “If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.”

— Luke Davies

6. “Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.”

— Luke Davies

7. “Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”

— Luke Davies

8. “Imperceptibly, more time passes when I’m not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.”

— Luke Davies

9. “In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.”

— Luke Davies

10. “Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

— Luke Davies

11. “There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy: those were like the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar, the endless dark heat.”

— Luke Davies

12. “I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.”

— Luke Davies

13. “From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I’ve somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.”

— Luke Davies

14. “What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.”

— Luke Davies

15. “It’s not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.”

— Luke Davies

16. “All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, ’something will break.”

— Luke Davies

17. “She told herself that life is short. This didn’t mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.”

— Luke Davies

18. “The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.”

— Luke Davies

19. “When you think you are in love, you don’t want to know about the things that could end it.”

— Luke Davies

20. “Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.”

— Luke Davies

21. “Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.”

— Luke Davies

22. “Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.”

— Luke Davies

23. “I try to tell myself I must accept certain private inevitabilities. I will live a life of continual deep fatigue, for example. I will carry in me, like a poison, like a virus, rancor for most things, and while this condition will not improve, nonetheless I will learn to live with my rancor as if it were a minor irritation. There will be many achievable things that I will not do and then there will come a time when I realize they are no longer even achievable.”

— Luke Davies

24. “But Murphy’s Law in the world of heroin said that if things could get out of control, then of course they would.”

— Luke Davies

25. “If any signs were obvious, I think I must have buried them. Because when you think you are in love, you don’t want to know about the things that could end it.”

— Luke Davies

26. “What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other’s undulations?”

— Luke Davies

27. “And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.”

— Luke Davies

28. “In the end, life can be seen to be inconsequential, in the way that nothing matters on some vast evolutionary scale. But everything matters, and we know that most when life seems most horrific, when at each instant of time, all the space around us is everything there is.”

— Luke Davies

29. “The beauty of our partnership was that we knew never to be surprised. Candy heard the urgency in my voice. She merely dropped her lipstick, started the car, and drove off quickly but calmly. This was what true love was. Implicit understanding.”

— Luke Davies

30. “She wanted a reaction. As usual, I felt nothing but the desire not to have a confrontation.”

— Luke Davies

31. “I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.”

— Luke Davies

32. “Like all junkies, I guess I’d thought for a long time that my environment was the problem. My situation. The people I knew.”

— Luke Davies

33. “We were the coolest people in McDonald’s. We had a lot going for us. We’d found the secret glue that held all things together. We were young and beautiful. We were married now. We were about to go home, get out of our monkey suits, get naked, and get wasted.”

— Luke Davies

34. “It never ceased to amaze me how much I could hate the world when I wasn’t stoned. It seemed such a hostile place. And yet, get a good blast in me, and my love for humanity was abundant.”

— Luke Davies

35. “What was it about love? Coming down off heroin, it was so hard to think of anything but pain. When we were stoned, we loved each other, we touched each other, we laughed a lot, it was us against the world.”

— Luke Davies