David Millar Quotes

I drink to forget I drink.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

News of Churchill. He is said to be in a very depressed state, spending the entire day smoking and drinking. This is the kind of enemy we need.

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Despair often breeds disease.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

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

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.