Earl Scruggs Quotes

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

I watch a lot of TV, I drink a lot of coffee, but you know what's really addictive? Heroin.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

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

Too much is never enough.

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.