Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

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

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

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

I've always had an addictive nature.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".