Addict Quotes

#1. I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.

Frederick Woolverton

#2. No one here is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.

E. Lockhart

#3. I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict ... The pig didn't know I was there ... it's my kick ... I love shafting animals ... it's rock 'n' roll power.

Ted Nugent

#4. Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Carrie Fisher

#5. The man, his feet tip-tapping softly on the stairs, hated it. He avoided the Index like a gambling addict avoids the tic-tac-tac of the dice table; but, like an addict, he was always, always aware of it: of the pull of the Books, and the darkness, and the silence.

F.D. Lee

#6. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#7. I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

Ralph Fiennes

#8. I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

Christina Ricci

#9. Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

Milton Friedman

#10. Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

David Malpass

#11. I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room.

Jordan L. Hawk

#12. If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

Ian Botham

#13. I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Ozzy Osbourne

#14. The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Ludwig Von Mises

#15. John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

Cornel West

#16. I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

Nikki Sixx

#17. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Shirley Chisholm

#18. Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

Eric Ludy

#19. No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

Whitney Houston

#20. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Plamen Chetelyazov

#21. The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.

Helen DeWitt

#22. Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

Stephen King

#23. 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz

#24. Problems is, the word of an addict is just that. A word. nothing more.

J.R. Ward

#25. In an addict's family, nobody wants the addict to feel bad, because when he feels bad, he will use and abuse. There is enormous effort, on the part of the rest of the family, therefore, to bear the weight of the addict's happiness and emotional stability.

Kay Bruner

#26. This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

Jodi Picoult

#27. I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

Russell Brand

#28. He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.

Cassandra Clare

#29. The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

Robert A. Johnson

#30. I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

Rick Reilly

#31. I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

Donatella Versace

#32. At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

David Sheff

#33. Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

John Ortberg

#34. Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.

Rob Ford

#35. I wondered if I was like a drug addict going through withdrawal. I had all the symptoms, my physical dependence on Lila showing its ugly self.
My depression and anxiety spiked, and I craved her more than I ever had before. I needed her.

K.I. Lynn

#36. An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

David Sheff

#37. Even for a meth addict. She was sleeping

James Patterson

#38. You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Bob Dylan

#39. I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

Annalena McAfee

#40. The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

David Burtka

#41. So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Ken Thompson

#42. I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit ... I gotta use it.

Rakim

#43. Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

Jack Kerouac

#44. I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

Daniel Baldwin

#45. I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Salman Rushdie

#46. More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

Frank Herbert

#47. If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Henry Rollins

#48. I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict.

S.E. Hinton

#49. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Anna Friel

#50. If God could make a carpenter into a Savior, a slave trader into a reverend, why not an opium addict into an earl?

Michelle Griep

#51. His body was a freaking masterpiece that could easily turn any girl into a drooling sex addict.

Kendall Ryan

#52. [C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?

David Carr

#53. While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

David Crosby

#54. I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

John McCain

#55. Tiger is born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed "golf addict" who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible.

Geoff Colvin

#56. My childhood wasn't easy. I buried myself in books. I guess I'm a recovering book addict.

Katherine Reay

#57. Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

Paul L Wachtel

#58. Just fuck me up.
A caffeine-addict placing an order with the barista.

Julie Johnson

#59. I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Salman Rushdie

#60. The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

Daniel Baldwin

#61. I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.

George Clooney

#62. In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

Elliott Chaze

#63. I've become a kissing addict. I think that's it. The buzzy feeling. Burning lips. The foggy eyes. Maybe i could kiss every good-looking guy here at school. Maybe even the good-looking male teachers. The thought warms me and troubles me at the same time.

Carol Lynch Williams

#64. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

Rob Ford

#65. I don't want to die young and a drug addict.

Glenna Maynard

#66. They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.
The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same burning degree that I detested commitment.
Being a statue was such a perfect job.

Amanda Palmer

#67. realized she was as much of an addict as I was, and refinement was her drug of choice.

C.D. Reiss

#68. The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

Walter Wink

#69. If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

Jess Walter

#70. I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez

#71. I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

Ozzy Osbourne

#72. The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new.

Michael W. Clune

#73. RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.

Norm MacDonald

#74. He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through.

Darynda Jones

#75. If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

P. J. O'Rourke

#76. One of the real enemies of an addict is denial.

Barbara Vance

#77. I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

Meg Ryan

#78. She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

Neil Tennant

#79. One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.

Rebecca McNutt

#80. I swore I wouldn't check my phone, and now that I've broken that vow it's like the other ones are null and void. Like any addict, I've built my floodgates out of tissue paper.

David Levithan

#81. Did it say something about me when a confirmed sex-addict needed help satisfying his lover? I tried not to think about that.

Passhenette1

#82. I'd say I watch a fair amount of TV, but I'm not a TV addict by any means.

Maulik Pancholy

#83. Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

Salman Rushdie

#84. I'm a complete addict of The 'X Factor,' so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there's a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It's a high price to pay.

Diana Quick

#85. I need words and print ... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

Margaret Drabble

#86. My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese.

Patti Stanger

#87. Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

Jeff Tweedy

#88. I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

Elton John

#89. And then you've got a media ready to package that, because it takes away from the political content of them songs. Suddenly there's not a real serious social message, there's just a drug addict. I

John Lydon

#90. But if I am a criminal, am I, then, an addict? Am I, then, a failure?

E. Lockhart

#91. Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

Ellen Burstyn

#92. He felt ugly, loathsome, unfit to live, existing from moment to moment like an addict. He gravitated to the crippled, the diseased, the bohemian, and the downtrodden when he wanted an evening of conversation, just a little cerebral companionship.

Anne Rice

#93. I'm an addict for underwear.

Jennifer Ellison

#94. Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the street.

Richard K. Morgan

#95. I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.

Justin Lee

#96. Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.

Farrah Fawcett

#97. Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

Alexandra Sobetsky

#98. Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don't; it is failing to see it at all.

Jan Ellison

#99. His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

Jeaniene Frost

#100. I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.

Barry Humphries