Quotes About Addiction Death

#1. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.

Brent Jones

#2. Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

Marc Ostrofsky

#3. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

Brent Jones

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Joe Dilley

#7. We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

James Dickey

#8. How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes

Alisa Mullen

#9. Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'

Witness Lee

#11. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

#12. Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

Russell Brand

#13. Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Richard Dawkins

#14. Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Lady Gaga

#15. If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

Brent Jones

#16. Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.

Ann Marlowe

#17. I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?

Luis J. Rodriguez

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

Brent Jones

#19. A chat
With the Grim Reaper
should be enough to scare
away any thought of relapse.
Wish it were that easy,
but not even days conversing
with death can disintegrate
the claws of addiction.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

Marion Woodman

#21. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

#22. Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead.

Dallin H. Oaks

#23. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

Brent Jones

#24. The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

Trevor Phillips

#27. My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

Etgar Keret

#28. 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

#29. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#30. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones

#31. TRAN-SCRIPT-URES
If women had dominated religion - would we have referred to God as 'she'?

Kamil Ali

#32. 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

#33. Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Anne Sexton

#34. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Brent Jones

#35. What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.

W.G. Sebald

#36. Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#37. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

#38. You have to lace your fingers just right to catch your dreams. And you don't want to lose them because they're not easy to find again.

Kami Garcia