Quotes About Addiction

I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old selves on whom we have turned our backs, as we forget a street that has been reconstructed.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

La cuestión es, supongo, que me volví adicto a leer, si se puede llamar leer a esa forma rara y acelerada de experimentar los libros, demasiada rápida para entender lo que se estaba contando o lo que significaban las frases.

And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness.

Depressed? No one in the world but a doper could know the true opposite of depressed.

Anytime I can watch television, I usually do the reality show stuff unless it is, of course, 'Breaking Bad' or 'Homeland.' Then, I am all over it.

I watch every reality show out there.

I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.'

I like watching a lot of reality television.

I'm a reality TV junkie.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven't had a drink now for many years.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Rob Halford is the person that I called a lot of the time when I was in recovery.