Quotes About Addiction And Love

#1. If you don't want to do without a person is not the same thing of wanting to be with that person.
Maybe it's one of the differences between addiction and love.

Luigina Sgarro

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire

Seema Gupta

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Travis Luedke

#8. Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didn't know the difference between the two, but this was more conveniently located, and anyway love wasn't his addiction.

Drew Nellins Smith

#9. Wait for me." The words come out choked and pained. "I need you to wait for me.

Krista Ritchie

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

Krista Ritchie

#11. Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places

Gordon Rouston

#12. Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Cornel West

#13. If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

Sarah Gadon

#14. 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

#15. Sometimes Love can mean and addiction for hurt.

Ira N. Barin

#16. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#17. We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

Stanton Peele

#18. There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.
I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Clint Catalyst

#19. 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

#20. Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise.

Maddy Malhotra

#21. It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Maya Forbes

#22. Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Calvin Miller

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

Krista Ritchie

#24. She was going to be my downfall. She was going to be my corruption and my vice. She was going to be my addiction and my compulsion and I was still going to fall headlong into her knowing the landing was going to be rough for both of us.

Jay Crownover

#25. 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

#26. LOVE JUNKIE travels tenderly and boldly into the despair, isolation, and tenacity of sex and love addiction. Rachel Resnick's gift for language and storytelling craft a vivid picture of her journey and her heart shines pure.

Kelly McDaniel

#27. I know how hard it is to find the line between helping someone out, and helping someone in. I know that all suffer and die inside, again and again, from the addiction of one. And I know that sometimes, if love doesn't harden itself, love doesn't survive at all.

Gregory David Roberts

#28. Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it's all fun and games, and isn't it funny what she gets away with.

Edie Falco

#29. 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

#30. The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.

H. Alazhar

#31. This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling

Anne Bishop

#32. 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

#33. I liked it. I craved it. I wanted more and I took it. I took it like I needed it, like my life had a limit and if I didn't get as much of it as I could, I'd quit breathing the next instant.

Kristen Ashley

#34. A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clusterfuck that was this situation. But I was never a smart woman, and if you didn't believe me, all you had to do was ask my mother.

A. Zavarelli

#35. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.

Vironika Tugaleva

#36. You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Gemini Adams

#37. It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

Zooey Deschanel

#38. 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

#39. [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed.

Liz Thebart

#40. Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home.

Nikki Rowe

#41. I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together ... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

Denis Johnson

#42. I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

Mahesh Bhupathi

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#44. And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction.

Mahmoud Darwish

#45. He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me I was beautiful. That I was perfect in every way. And that, unconditionally, I was his.

A. Zavarelli

#46. They thought they had snicker-snatched a little girl - fairies love taking little girls, it's like an addiction with them - and when they found out they had a little boy who just looked like a little girl on the outside, uh-oh, donesies. They threw him right back.

Seanan McGuire

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

Chris Fabry

#48. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.

Super Star

#49. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Kris Kidd

#50. At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing.

Liz Thebart

#51. She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Kim Edwards

#52. See, I am very dependent ... on beauty and peace of the world ... on loyalty of friends ... on love in families ... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all ...

Galina Nelson

#53. Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

Krista Ritchie

#54. 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

#55. Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#56. 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

#57. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#58. I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn't the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I'd never have lasting comfort or joy again.

Maia Szalavitz

#59. 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

#60. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.

Liz Thebart

#61. In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.

Christopher Dines

#62. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)

Stevan V. Nikolic

#63. Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

John Brunner

#64. That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.

Stacia Kane

#65. I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door.

Julie Halston

#66. 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

#67. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

#68. It's not the sweet, tender kind of love I always dreamed of, but it's love. Dark, twisted, and obsessive, it's both a compulsion and an addiction.

Anna Zaires

#69. 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

#70. Heartbreaking and brave, Rachel Resnick masterfully pulls the past to the present, exploring how the seeds of addiction planted during an unhappy girlhood can blossom into a grown-up woman's frantic search for love. LOVE JUNKIE is a memoir unlike any other; it will blow your mind.

Lee Montgomery