Self-Destructive Habits Quotes

I was banging seven-gram rocks...because that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

People don't set out being bad. They have deep pain inside.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

I've got an addictive personality.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.