No Addiction Quotes

#1. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

Matt Chandler

#2. Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.

Chris Rock

#3. I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Tom Waits

#4. 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

#5. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

#6. The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Jeremy Collier

#7. Fiction Is My Addiction

Dr. Seuss

#8. His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.

V. Theia

#9. Lucy: Yes, as usual I bought so many books that my food budget ran out. I was left with no choice but to eat bread crusts. But! On the other hand, this means that I was able to feed my word addiction! I feel no shame whatsoever about eating bread crusts!

Hasebe: Have a little shame.

Karino Takatsu

#10. 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

#11. The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Chris Fabry

#12. 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

#13. No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. 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

#15. There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Doug Stanhope

#16. No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

Henry Rollins

#17. There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

George Will

#18. 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

#19. Each night we watched the sun set no matter where we were, and we'd wake up early to witness it rising again. That was the thing about life: even when the days faded to black, you were always given another chance. A second moment to try again to rise from the ashes.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#20. There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

#21. My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do another line. Like I said, a cycle.

Kris Kidd

#22. Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

James Buchan

#23. No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Gus Van Sant

#24. Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

Charles Eisenstein

#25. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Mick Jagger

#26. No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.

E.M. Youman

#27. No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...

Asa Don Brown

#28. It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart.

Jack Kerouac

#29. Ove has a heart problem ... he begins in an anodyne voice, following this up with a series of terms that no human being with less than ten years of medical training or an entirely unhealthy addiction to certain television series could ever be expected to understand.

Fredrik Backman

#30. You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet -
your entire life spent wondering
where your clothes went.

Kris Kidd

#31. Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

Pope Francis

#32. 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

#33. He had no illusions about his addiction to her. She had her fingers sunk firmly into his heart, and could do with it what she wished.

Julie Kagawa

#34. I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Jay Roach

#35. We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

River Phoenix

#36. You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that's okay
because he doesn't know
who he's fucking with anyway.

Kris Kidd

#37. 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

#38. She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.

Travis Luedke

#39. We can no longer afford our historical sentimentality, even addiction, to the past.

Michael Frost

#40. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#41. As a clinician, I unapologetically believe that we must no longer identify our patients/clients with the addiction. While they may struggle with an addiction, the addiction itself is no different than any other form of medical ailment and disease.

Asa Don Brown

#42. Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

Larry Michael Dredla

#43. I'm not sharing. You're mine. No one will touch you but me. I have an addictive personality. I always have. And you just became my number one addiction. I'm gonna want this. A lot. I'm needy and demanding, and now you're the only one who can meet that need.

Abbi Glines

#44. 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

#45. Make no mistake: E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter checking constitute a neural addiction.

Daniel J. Levitin

#46. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Christopher McDougall

#47. 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

#48. Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?

Nick Harkaway

#49. I love you," he says again, "and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

Krista Ritchie

#50. Her loving hands, soft lips, and perfumed scents were an addiction for which he had no cure.

Travis Luedke

#51. No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#52. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

David Carr

#53. I'm an addiction?"
He responds quietly, "The worst one. There's no cure for that addiction.

Belle Aurora

#54. 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

#55. God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.

John Crowder

#56. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

Keith Ablow

#57. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Christopher Dines

#58. Lucy in The Sky Without Any Diamonds At All.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 20, 2016
Babaji
Amen
God

Petra Hermans

#59. Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#60. No drug mafia can run his business without affiliation with the governance.

Sumit Agarwal

#61. Addiction does not respect love of life.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 28, 2016
Babaji
Amen

Petra Hermans

#62. Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

Donna Gillespie

#63. No addiction is good.

Jose Mujica

#64. You drink way too much coffee, Day. I mean all day every - "
"And you fuck too much. I mean all day every day." Day cut God off. "Do I tell you to stop? No. Instead I feed your addiction. Can't you provide me the same courtesy?

A.E. Via

#65. When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#66. In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Billie Holiday

#67. When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Taite Adams

#68. Part of me wanted to talk myself out of what I was doing. I knew there was no coming back from the feelings I was allowing back, but I didn't really care. It was a crippling addiction and I didn't want the cure.

Teresa Mummert

#69. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

C. G. Jung

#70. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

Brian Spellman

#71. Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert Trout

#72. I carry a strong anti-drug message, and it's important young people especially hear a "real" story about addiction and how it affects not only the addict but also the people who love him/her, rather than "just say no."

Ellen Hopkins

#73. To suppress love of life and natural aggression
by drug, alcohol and sex addiction
is no world peace, at all.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
September 24, 2016
Amen
Babaji

Petra Hermans

#74. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#75. If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

David Limbaugh

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue.

Jennifer Salaiz

#79. There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

Chris Prentiss

#80. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Stefan Molyneux

#81. Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.

Kurt Vonnegut

#82. Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

John Grisham

#83. No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?

Krista Ritchie

#84. When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk

#85. It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Brent Jones

#86. [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.

Paul Auster

#87. What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?

Shauna Niequist

#88. No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Barnaby Keeney