David Sheff Quotes

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

I got sober at age forty-two.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

I'm clean and sober.

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.