Ann Landers Quotes

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

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

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.