Top 100 Addiction In Quotes
#1. What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!
David W. Earle
#2. The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.
John Waters
#4. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
#5. If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.
Liam Hemsworth
#6. People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world, and it's dwarfed in comparison to the addiction to feelings and people.
Chad Eastham
#7. It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
Macklemore
#8. I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.
Truth Devour
#9. At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
Roberta Williams
#10. I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
Anne Fadiman
#11. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
#12. Too far down that rabbit hole, wrapped in an unhealthy addiction,
V. Theia
#13. It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
Eminem
#14. 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
#15. See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
Wayne Dyer
#16. When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious addictive natures who are in the process of recovery have found that trauma played a huge role in escalating their addictions. It certainly did for me.
Christopher Dines
#17. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.
Brent Jones
#18. A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#19. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.
Amitav Ghosh
#20. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.
Jack Kornfield
#21. Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.
Michael Botticelli
#22. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
Marianne Williamson
#23. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#24. Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.
Joseph A. Califano Jr.
#25. Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
Christian Slater
#26. Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
Charles Baxter
#27. If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.
Gary Zukav
#28. Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#29. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#30. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.
Beem Weeks
#31. Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals - in this case, their own hormones.
Alexandra Katehakis
#32. You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
Dennis Farina
#33. In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#34. The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
Robert Greenwald
#35. The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).
Billy Graham
#36. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.
Liz Thebart
#37. It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.
Buzz Aldrin
#38. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.
Neil Gaiman
#39. It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
Gloria Reuben
#40. He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls ...
Nelson Algren
#41. At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing.
Liz Thebart
#42. It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction.
Astra Taylor
#43. I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
Carrie Fisher
#44. Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.
Billy Graham
#45. It was moments like this that made me realize that love was just a feeling in which we all felt the need to desire, but if it wasn't reciprocated was it still love then? When it's so toxic but you hold on still, was it an addiction
Zoya
#46. The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.
Drew Pinsky
#47. Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
Ice-T
#48. Love! Who ever said that love
made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she
knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.
Linda Howard
#49. If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.
Virgil Miller Newton
#50. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
Steven Kassels
#51. Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto.
Kris Kidd
#52. I want to stay with you. it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.
Stephenie Meyer
#53. It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.
Andrew Davidson
#54. I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!
William S. Burroughs
#55. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#56. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#57. It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.
Kenneth Eade
#58. My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Yes, I know the word tenacious. I'm 13 and disillusioned. And a little lonely.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Super Star
#60. There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley
#61. Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.
Susane Colasanti
#62. Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.
Kevin Rooney
#63. We share a reckless, toxic love that feeds the brokenness in me, in us. Our love is an addiction. A love that I won't ever consider living without.
Angie McKeon
#64. Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.
Anna Quindlen
#65. Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.
George Carlin
#66. I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
Tommy Rettig
#67. It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
Zooey Deschanel
#68. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
Brene Brown
#69. Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
Dave Navarro
#70. As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes.
Timothy Keller
#71. Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'
'Oh, rather!'
'What do you do about it?'
'I generally take a couple of cocktails.
P.G. Wodehouse
#72. I would start with four fingers of Jack in a thick mug, with a sweating Budweiser back, and by midnight I would be alone at the end of the bar, armed, drunk, and hunched over my glass, morally and psychologically insane.
James Lee Burke
#73. 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
#74. He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me I was beautiful. That I was perfect in every way. And that, unconditionally, I was his.
A. Zavarelli
#75. And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction.
Mahmoud Darwish
#76. For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.
Rob Roberge
#77. When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.
Billy Graham
#78. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
Brent Jones
#79. In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
Munia Khan
#80. Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Martin Amis
#81. You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
Mallory Ortberg
#82. I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds.
Kris Kidd
#83. When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
Lauryn Hill
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Alex Benson
#85. I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.
Theia Mey
#86. The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!
Roseanne Barr
#87. At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.
Bob Menendez
#88. Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens.
Anything. Anything for a fix of light.
X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule
X.J. Kennedy
#89. Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.
Warren Farrell
#90. Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
Thomas Szasz
#91. With God's help in the grasp of addiction you'll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.
Ron Baratono
#92. [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed.
Liz Thebart
#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
Damon Albarn
#97. The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
Caroline Knapp
#98. I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
William S. Burroughs
#99. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.
Toni Sorenson
#100. All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
Thomas Szasz
