Top 46 Pain Addiction Quotes
#1. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
#2. Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
Deepak Chopra
#3. Sometimes people go through a lifetime of pain by holding a secret that could have changed everything. It is an intoxicating addiction, an act of dominance to know that you hold something in your grip that could have changed the life of a person you detest.
Amit Sharma
#4. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
Sherman Alexie
#5. Not why the addiction but why the pain.
Gabor Mate
#6. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#7. Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in function and minimal risk of addiction.
Andrew Rosenblum
#8. 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
#9. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.
Christopher Dines
#10. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.
Sonya Huber
#11. 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
#12. Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
David W. Earle
#13. If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.
Geoffrey Wood
#14. There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But then I see these other faces - the ones who commit suicide because they can't handle the pain. Those faces mean just as much to me.
Donna Marsh
#15. Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.
Mandy J. Hoffman
#16. 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
#17. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
Russell Brand
#18. We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.
Chris Prentiss
#19. By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.
Kristi Funk
#20. Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.
Geoffrey Wood
#21. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.
Dan Mager
#22. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.
Billy Graham
#25. And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever.
Geoffrey Wood
#26. 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
#27. I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
Carrie Fisher
#28. Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.
David W. Earle
#29. The question is never "Why the addiction?" but "Why the pain?" The research literature is unequivocal: most hard-core substance abusers come from abusive homes.
Gabor Mate
#30. 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
#31. Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism - a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
Gabor Mate
#34. This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with'disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.
Amy Reed
#35. Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. We'd all much rather take something for the pain and make it all go away.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#36. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.
S. E. Smith
#37. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
Moshe Kasher
#38. Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
Hannah More
#39. I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
Sonya Huber
#40. We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe.
If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy.
Christiane Northrup
#41. It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?
Thomas Lynch
#42. I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!
David W. Earle
#43. That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I?
Sam Hunter
#44. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!
Pax Prentiss
#45. 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
#46. Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."
Marni Jackson
