Addiction Quotes

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

Every junkie is like a setting sun.

When I went to rehab, somebody said to me: 'You're so lucky - normally most people that come here have lost everything and they have to rebuild.' I hadn't really lost anything. I just lost a little bit of respect from my mates.

I've been clean for ages, I'm at the gym all the time, everyone feels good.

Everyone smokes weed, it's fine. But I'm an addict, so it's not fine. I don't wanna be addicted to anything anymore.

Kind of easy for me, because it's so scary, gross, dirty, and no one fucks with it-you don't go for a pizza and someone puts heroin in front of you.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

I'm just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.