Russell Brand Quotes About Addiction

Quotes about: Addiction

• It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Believe, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

• Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

  Russell Brand

  Jail, Addiction, Rehab

  "Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2011.

• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

• The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

  Russell Brand

  Pain, Addiction, Priorities

  "Amy Winehouse's Death: Russell Brand Pens Appreciation For the Late Singer" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 24, 2011.

• What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

  Russell Brand

  Simple, Addiction, Support

  "Russell Brand: my life without drugs". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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