Top 100 Quotes About Addiction
#1. If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.
Doreen Virtue
#2. We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
Jay Inslee
#3. Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.
Liz Brixius
#4. The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
Jay Inslee
#5. 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
#6. It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
Rachel Vincent
#8. I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.
Vestal McIntyre
#9. It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
Winona LaDuke
#10. That's part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. "I
Emma Scott
#12. Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
Edward St. Aubyn
#13. Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
Ken Keyes Jr.
#14. Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ...
Al Gore
#16. Drugs didn't have to be a messy business anymore, because science had taken addiction out of the equation.
Kit Rocha
#17. Meek - free from the addiction to ordinary power - you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.
Robert E. Barron
#18. 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
#19. I don't understand it. Addiction. The pull or the control, the want or the need.
Marissa Carmel
#20. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Jean Kilbourne
#22. Before we get any further, I want you to understand that this book will not help you quit smoking or control a gambling addiction. Mini habits are for good habits only - adding positive behaviors to your life
Stephen Guise
#24. For the materialist, advertising becomes the powerful drug that feeds the addiction. Advertising prays on one's sense of inadequacy and loneliness. It promises that products and services will enhance a person's personality and identity and make him or her more appealing,
Jeremy Rifkin
#25. The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
Nora Volkow
#26. To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
John Albert Macy
#27. I was humiliated for the girl with the social media addiction. The girl addicted to the validation of strangers. She didn't even know what she thought until someone told her what to think. She didn't even know who she was.
Kasie West
#28. Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.
Robert Pinsky
#29. My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire
Seema Gupta
#30. I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
Penelope Cruz
#31. Show business can be an addiction ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.
Joan Rivers
#32. I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
Brad Paisley
#33. I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
Jane Fonda
#34. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.
David Sheff
#35. 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
#36. The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Phillip Adams
#37. Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,
Catherynne M Valente
#38. Everybody has an addiction mine happens to be you
Drake
#39. Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
Nikki Sixx
#40. That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
Eric Avery
#41. We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.
Michael Botticelli
#42. If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.
Liam Hemsworth
#43. Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith.
Lee Thomas
#44. Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.
Lynda Carter
#45. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
Billy Graham
#47. At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.
Trinny Woodall
#48. Writing is a form of art. It is a skill; a gift. It is addiction; passion; love. It is my life.
Helen Deakin
#49. For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Lee H. Hamilton
#50. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
James Hollis
#51. Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
Barry Schwartz
#52. There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.
Robert Moss
#54. How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?
Lee L Jampolsky
#55. That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people ... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.
David Foster Wallace
#56. In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.
Dennis Miller
#57. I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.
Eric Avery
#58. 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
#59. For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.
Mordecai Richler
#60. I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#61. I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
Larry David
#62. 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
#63. Yes, I have patterns of love addiction.
But I'm a woman.
Of course I do.
Emma Forrest
#64. Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.
Jim Loehr
#65. I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
John McCain
#66. I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#67. Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader
#68. This stigma associated with drug use
the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic
has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
David Sheff
#69. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...
David Sheff
#70. I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.
Jeff Dunham
#71. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
Criss Jami
#72. We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.
Sylvia Day
#73. I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Siri Hustvedt
#74. The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.
William S. Burroughs
#75. I'm an addiction?"
He responds quietly, "The worst one. There's no cure for that addiction.
Belle Aurora
#76. Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a person yearn for more. It's not something one thinks about, it's something that's felt, involuntarily.
Shelena Shorts
#77. This book is for anyone who is fighting to better themselves. Fighting the battle of addiction. Fighting the battle of depression. Fighting the battle of abuse. Know that this book is for you. You can do it. I believe in you. As Jared Padalecki says: JUST KEEP FIGHTING!
Toni Aleo
#78. Success is both an addiction and an enslavement ...
Paulo Coelho
#79. Addiction," I say simply. "It can span an entire lifetime if untreated."
"What's the treatment?"
"I don't really care."
"Me neither," she says.
Tarryn Fisher
#80. I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do.
Eraldo Banovac
#81. Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#82. "We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."
John Hickenlooper
#83. 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
#84. In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
Ann Voskamp
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
Corey Feldman
#89. Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
Michael Hogan
#90. No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#91. You're my addiction, Caitlin, keeping me sane at the same time as driving me crazy.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#92. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.
Suzanne Falter-Barns
#93. Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#94. 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
#95. I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.
Michael J. Sullivan
#96. It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#97. Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?
Andrew Nikiforuk
#99. Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
James N. Frey
#100. 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
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