Top 100 Quotes About Addiction
#1. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
David W. Earle
#2. amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.
Elizabeth Noble
#3. I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.
Truth Devour
#4. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.
Timothy O'Grady
#5. At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
Roberta Williams
#6. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
Stacia Kane
#7. Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
William S. Burroughs
#8. I stopped wearing expensive clothes, I kicked my addiction to six newspapers a day,
Robin S. Sharma
#9. I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
Anne Fadiman
#10. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#11. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.
Chris Prentiss
#12. 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
#13. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
Fran Lebowitz
#14. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
Rufus Wainwright
#15. I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it.
Schoolboy Q
#16. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
#17. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
#18. Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs.
At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.
LeAnne Mechelle
#19. After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
Charles Baxter
#20. But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.
Fatima Bhutto
#21. He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#22. As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Joseph Addison
#23. Too far down that rabbit hole, wrapped in an unhealthy addiction,
V. Theia
#24. It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
Eminem
#25. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#26. 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
#27. We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
George Matthew Adams
#29. It was incredible, the way that people kept on going, whether they were dying of pancreatic cancer or drug addiction or the apocalypse itself.
Tommy Wallach
#30. My desire to self-destruct is a one-night stand
on Groundhog Day.
Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.
Kris Kidd
#31. I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.
Kelly Osbourne
#32. According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.
Jay Leno
#33. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor
#34. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.
Johann Hari
#35. People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
Dennis Prager
#36. You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.
Alice Hoffman
#37. Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.
Augusten Burroughs
#38. What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!
David W. Earle
#39. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
Wayne Dyer
#41. My addiction to you is definitely a catastrophic weakness
Julie Hockley
#42. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.
Lee Child
#46. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#47. Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.
Georges Bataille
#48. My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams
Larry Smith
#49. Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?
William Boyd
#50. A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#51. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.
Michael Botticelli
#52. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.
Amitav Ghosh
#53. Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.
Joyce Meyer
#54. I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.
C.M. McKenna
#55. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.
Mike Love
#56. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.
Jack Kornfield
#57. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal
#58. Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.
Michael Botticelli
#59. It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
Jim Ramstad
#61. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
Marianne Williamson
#62. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.
Kris Kidd
#63. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#64. I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,.
Abraham J. Twerski
#65. I have a writing addiction.
Prince
#66. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
Rebecca McNutt
#67. Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.
Joseph A. Califano Jr.
#68. Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
Wendell Berry
#69. I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.
Sue William Silverman
#70. I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
Carrie Fisher
#71. That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'
Michael Moss
#72. How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein?
Jonathan Franzen
#73. Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
Christian Slater
#74. Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction ... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.
Lauren Mackler
#75. Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
Robin Sharma
#76. Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
Charles Baxter
#77. If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.
Gary Zukav
#78. Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum
John Candy
#79. What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive ...
Robbin Crosby
#80. I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.
Glennon Melton
#81. Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#82. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#83. People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
Payne Stewart
#84. What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
#85. I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.
Corey Haim
#86. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#87. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
Gillian Jacobs
#88. Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Sin Mils
#89. So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
Bernie Siegel
#90. You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.
Basically, we are stupid.
Saurabh Sharma
#91. 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
#92. Read this book ... but understand it's fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
John Zelazny
#93. By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
Van Jones
#94. Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Martin Amis
#95. I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
Janice Dickinson
#96. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Simon Weston
#97. I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.
Chino Moreno
#98. Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
Osamu Dazai
#99. For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
Steven Seagal