Top 100 Addiction Is Quotes
#1. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.
Timothy O'Grady
#2. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
Rufus Wainwright
#3. What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!
David W. Earle
#4. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#5. Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
Georges Bataille
#6. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.
Mike Love
#7. 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
#8. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
James Cook
#9. The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I'm on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.
Minzy
#10. The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.
John Waters
#11. To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it's important to remember that art can often get messy.
Christopher Dines
#12. It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America's oil addiction is a sickness that's killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work.
Barry Eisler
#13. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
Chris Prentiss
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I think of my sponsor. Rachel. "Addiction is a patient disease," she said to me once. "It'll wait for your whole life, if it has to. Never forget that.
S.J. Watson
#20. Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
Tim Cowlishaw
#21. Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.
Chris Prentiss
#22. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.
Columba Bush
#23. Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.
Jaako J. Wallenius
#24. Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
Helen Fisher
#25. 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
#26. Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
natural wisdom.
Stephen Levine
#27. Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.
Toni Sorenson
#28. Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
John Walters
#29. Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.
David W. Earle
#30. Addiction is pretty simple. It's what happens when peolme don't get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.
Gabor Mate
#31. Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself - something you cannot prove for certain.
Seth Adam Smith
#32. Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
Julia Cameron
#33. What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
Moby
#34. Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.
Saahil Prem
#35. The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.
Roy Nelson
#36. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.
Liz Hemingway
#37. Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence ... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#38. Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
Porochista Khakpour
#39. Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
Harold Rosenberg
#40. Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
Carey Mulligan
#41. Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.
Chris Prentiss
#43. 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.
Matthew Perry
#45. Why are we so addicted to social media?
Because, our limbic system is craving for rewards, pleasure, acceptance and expansion through mind.
Saurabh Sharma
#46. Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,
Pope Francis
#47. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Kenneth Minogue
#48. Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one ... like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart ... and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.
Eleanor Catton
#49. My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
Robin Williams
#50. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.
Neil T. Anderson
#51. You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.
Kathy Freston
#52. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
John Brunner
#53. What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. It's an addiction ... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Keith Richards
#55. I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.
Jess C. Scott
#56. One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.
John Bytheway
#57. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
Asa Don Brown
#58. Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#59. Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.
Margaret Cousins
#60. If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.
Dan Seals
#61. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
David Carr
#62. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#63. Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#64. Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
Sherry Turkle
#65. For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
#66. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#67. What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?
Amy Reed
#68. Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.
Herbert M. Shelton
#69. Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."
Carl Whitaker
#70. A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day
#71. Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race ... Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.
Billy Graham
#72. No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#73. Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing.
Jean Sasson
#74. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Ann Marlowe
#75. Love begins when two souls meet together. A soul attracted by another soul. They feel like bind by each other. It's a powerful addiction. It's truly said, first love is last love. But it does not said anywhere to stop love if you betrayed by your lover.
Kusum Manjeshri
#76. When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.
Joel Fuhrman
#77. Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
#79. Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.
David Kipper
#80. Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.
Deepak Chopra
#81. The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.
Chris Prentiss
#82. A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.
Saru Singhal
#83. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
Christopher Meloni
#84. This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.
Stephen King
#86. But it is possible to let go of this addiction. Consciousness is power. Once we are aware of ourselves as a separate Presence from our thoughts, we can then witness them and perhaps notice the addictive quality of thinking.
Arielle Hecht
#87. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.
Chris Prentiss
#88. If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.
Harriet B. Braiker
#89. Their addiction to suffering is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day.
Miguel Ruiz
#90. Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.
Cheryl Strayed
#91. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
C. G. Jung
#92. Succumbing to a lifetime of guilt is just another form of approval addiction. ARE
Joyce Meyer
#94. Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. The brain chemistry that drives the addict to seek pleasure beyond the point of satiety is similar, whether the user favours Jack Daniels or Jack-in-the-Box.
Vera Tarman
#96. Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons.
- Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.
Karen Hawkins
#98. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.
Kate Madison
#99. Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. Sugar has no nutritive value and is addictive. It is one of the biggest enemies to your health. It is an addiction that is very hard to break. Sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup are in most processed foods. They
Elizabeth Gibbons
