Edie Sedgwick Quotes

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There's no way to tell anyone who hasn't been through it, there's no way to explain it to anyone who hasn't tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wander around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile. You can tell by people's eyes.

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem ... Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really ... motivated by psychological disturbance.

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.