Luke Davies Quotes

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I'm an addict for underwear.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.