George Carlin Quotes

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Rehab is like a divorce.

I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in the end, it wasn't rehab that got me sober. It was just finally surrendering and saying, 'I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. Somebody help me.'

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

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

I'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.