Top 100 Addiction Is Quotes
#1. Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
William S. Burroughs
#2. After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
Charles Baxter
#3. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.
Michael Botticelli
#4. 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
#5. Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
Osamu Dazai
#6. Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
Aldous Huxley
#7. We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil ... The best way to break this addiction is through technology
George W. Bush
#8. 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
#9. Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.
J.D. Vance
#11. At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing
a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
Cornelius Plantinga
#12. 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
#14. Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs ... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C ... M ... Punk.
CM Punk
#15. Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
Cornel West
#16. No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#17. Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.
Lou Gramm
#20. Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.
Paul Pearsall
#21. 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
#23. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.
Columba Bush
#24. The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.
Michael Botticelli
#26. An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.
Marion Woodman
#27. Addiction is pretty simple. It's what happens when peolme don't get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.
Gabor Mate
#28. Well before physical dependency sets in, one of the first signs of addiction is an inability to, ironically, just say no. Now
Craig Jordan Goodman
#29. It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
Aimee Mann
#30. Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.
James Frey
#31. Addiction is a disease - a treatable disease - and it needs to be understood.
Nora D. Volkow
#32. Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime.
Sumit Agarwal
#33. 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
#34. Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
Carey Mulligan
#35. The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
Deepak Chopra
#36. 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
#37. The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
Simon Pegg
#38. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#40. Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,
Pope Francis
#41. A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.
Jody Dean
#42. The CDC recently reported that opiate addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem, with the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year enough to medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.
Taite Adams
#43. I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.
Charlie Sheen
#44. Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#45. 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
#46. It's an addiction ... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Keith Richards
#47. Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
Stephanie S. Covington
#48. 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
#49. So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
Johann Hari
#50. Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#51. This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.
Tess Callahan
#52. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.
Irene Tomkinson
#53. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
David Carr
#54. Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
Deepak Chopra
#55. Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.
Jose Mujica
#56. Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
Sherry Turkle
#58. Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.
Deepak Chopra
#59. What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
Linda Ronstadt
#60. 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
#61. I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
John McCain
#62. Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
Trinny Woodall
#63. Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
Nikki Sixx
#64. 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
#65. The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
Nora Volkow
#67. Addiction is an illness, and it pains me to see people forced to live this way because they're unable to help themselves.
Colleen Hoover
#68. Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
Karin Slaughter
#69. The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.
Leonard Jacobson
#71. The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.
William S. Burroughs
#72. Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags
it's a universal disease.
River Phoenix
#73. Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.
Cheryl Strayed
#74. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
C. G. Jung
#75. The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.
Gabor Mate
#76. Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
Gerald May
#77. It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.
M.F. Moonzajer
#78. To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.
Michael W. Clune
#79. Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.
Deepak Chopra
#80. Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which ... obsession replaces people.
Patrick Carnes
#81. [Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.
Roxanne Roberts
#83. All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden
#84. Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything
Vladimir Putin
#85. 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
#86. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
Rufus Wainwright
#87. What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!
David W. Earle
#88. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#89. Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
Georges Bataille
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
James Cook
#93. 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
#94. The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.
John Waters
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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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