Sharon Needles Quotes

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

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

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

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.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.