Judith Wright Quotes

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

I got a bad habit of creating.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

No addiction is good.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.