Addiction Quotes

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know, she'd be like keep me away from those chocolate bars, I'm addicted to them. And it's really annoying. So one day I put her in the car and I drove her downtown and I pointed out a crack addict. And I said you see that honey? Why can't you be that skinny?

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

I dwell in possibility.

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.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

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.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

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,.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.