Addict Quotes

#1. If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Anthony Hopkins

#2. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.

Harold Bloom

#3. I'm a TV addict.

Shanola Hampton

#4. I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

Gillian Flynn

#5. Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.

John Irving

#6. Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.

Melissa Jo Peltier

#7. See, I am very dependent ... on beauty and peace of the world ... on loyalty of friends ... on love in families ... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all ...

Galina Nelson

#8. There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Theodore Dalrymple

#9. I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

Kelly Osbourne

#10. Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

Steve Earle

#12. Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker.

Warren Ellis

#13. One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

Jason Alexander

#14. Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.

Simon Kernick

#15. I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Mitch Hedberg

#16. The marquis de Carabas tossed the figurine to Mr. Croup, who caught it eagerly, like an addict catching a plastic baggie filled with white powder of dubious legality.

Neil Gaiman

#17. I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Stephen King

#18. I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

Lisa Ling

#19. I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

Glennon Melton

#20. Until the day that "the Great Judge proclaims: / 'The last addict's died,'254 " the poem said, "Then - not till then - may you be retired.

Johann Hari

#21. When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

Nikki Sixx

#22. Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Alanis Morissette

#23. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare

#24. I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model.

Lori Lesko

#25. The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love.

Alonzo King

#26. I never took amphetamines again - despite sometimes-intense longings for them (the brain of an addict or an alcoholic is changed for life; the possibility, the temptation, of regression never go away).

Oliver Sacks

#27. An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

William S. Burroughs

#28. NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

Greg Prato

#29. They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978.

Dave Barry

#30. As an addict I take everything as a sign from God. It was pouring on about eight million people but I was the only one getting wet.

Jackson Galaxy

#31. If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#32. But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Truman Capote

#33. Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals - in this case, their own hormones.

Alexandra Katehakis

#34. Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Anna Quindlen

#35. I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

Trent Reznor

#36. If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Russell Brand

#37. I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Dustin Hoffman

#38. Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Jeanne Moreau

#39. Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Jessica Sorensen

#40. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

Rupert Everett

#41. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#42. I'm a huge food addict.

Colin Donnell

#43. From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

Dax Shepard

#44. You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.

Henry Cloud

#45. During the post-breakdown period, she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.

Susan Wiggs

#46. My body craved sunshine; winter felt like an addict's withdrawal.

Sharon E. Rainey

#47. I'm a sex addict. Everyone knows it. And now we have to figure out how to deal with this spotlight.

Krista Ritchie

#48. If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Desiderius Erasmus

#49. But you can't cure an addict who doesn't want to be cured.

Cassandra Clare

#50. Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit

Allen Ginsberg

#51. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Kris Kidd

#52. I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Lenny Kravitz

#53. Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

Thomas Szasz

#54. I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.

Kristan Higgins

#55. I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

Dax Shepard

#56. I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

Brian Chippendale

#57. Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again ...

Chelsea Cain

#58. I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Morgan Freeman

#59. If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

Mariel Hemingway

#60. The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

Julia Hill

#61. Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

John Waters

#62. Running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Brenda Ueland

#63. I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

Greg Evigan

#64. She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.

Elle Kennedy

#65. I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.

Chris Hardwick

#66. I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

Mark Ronson

#67. The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

Rita Mae Brown

#68. Twitter is crack for media addicts,

George Packer

#69. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Marian Keyes

#70. At the time, my 6-year-old kept thinking my character's name was "Sam Alone," which is kind of brilliant. The funny came out of Sam's sad core: the alcoholic, the sex addict, the person who thinks he's God's gift.

Ted Danson

#71. I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

J.J. Abrams

#72. I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

Peter Sarsgaard

#73. Never leave home without a great gloss: Dior Addict Perfecto is one of my faves.

Amber Le Bon

#74. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

Edie Falco

#75. And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#76. I'm what they call the love addict!

Zach Sobiech

#77. I had never been to a rodeo before. I had no idea how crazy white people could be. Considering I had been abandoned by a white, crack addict mother, I should have known.

Amy Harmon

#78. That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

Virginia Woolf

#79. I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective ... in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

John Waters

#80. One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

George Carlin

#81. I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.

Rob Ford

#82. The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.

Pitigrilli

#83. We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

#84. Patrick Carnes wrote an apt description of the addict's behavior: "The addict substitutes a sick relationship to an event or a process for a healthy relationship with others. The addict's relationship with a mood-altering experience becomes central to his life" (Carnes 2001, 14).

George Collins

#85. I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

Valerie Bertinelli

#86. I'm going to sit here with your weird fucking family who don't know me and think I'm some kind of punk rocker turned heroine addict while you dance the night away with Noah mother fucking Scott. And I'm going to do that because I love you.

C.M. Stunich

#87. Lhyn watched her with a smile. "You do realize that's your fourth cup and it's not even midmeal. Shouldn't you be starting a bit lower than full addict level?" "I am a full addict; what's the use in pretending? Besides, it's only three and a half cups.

Fletcher DeLancey

#88. Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

Cornelius Plantinga

#89. In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Chuck Palahniuk

#90. Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.

Jaako J. Wallenius

#91. An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

Edie Falco

#92. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

John Waters

#93. My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.

Will.i.am

#94. Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart ... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Hunter S. Thompson

#95. I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.

Richard Branson

#96. If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

Kathy Smith

#97. It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.

James Stewart

#98. According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict.

Ilana Mercer

#99. Then again, back when I was an addict I turned to alcohol for every occasion. Just got good news? Have a drink to celebrate. Just got bad news? Have a drink to commiserate. "It's

Penny Reid

#100. I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Murray Bartlett