Top 42 Quotes About Death From Addiction
#1. 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
#2. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#3. People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.
Deyth Banger
#4. My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
Dirk Benedict
#5. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
Brent Jones
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.
Brent Jones
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants.
Edmund Kemper
#14. What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.
W.G. Sebald
#16. 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
#17. Somebody has to be the pioneer and leave the marks for others to follow ... you've got to have some faith in what you're trying to do. It's easy to have faith as long as it goes along with what you already know. But you've got to have faith in us all the way ...
Tom Wolfe
#18. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Jean Cocteau
#19. When there is no way in which men can believe in the fundamental morality of a social system, even one then profit by, that system begins to die because the masters lose their ability to defend it.
George P. Rawick
#20. 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
#21. If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.
Jason Chaffetz
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes
Alisa Mullen
#28. Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.
Robin S. Sharma
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Giacomo Casanova
#35. I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.
Jane Russell
#37. Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
Ann Marlowe
#38. 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
#39. As of 2006, there were still fifty-three countries where a husband could not be prosecuted for the rape of his wife. Even in Germany, rape laws were amended only in 1997 to create a legal category of marital rape.
Yuval Noah Harari
#40. It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.
Brent Jones
#41. On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
Benjamin Bratt
#42. 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
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