Addiction Quotes

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

Some crave grief like strong drink.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

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.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

We are addicted to being the way we are

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

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.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

We must do something to let people in this country know that addiction is something that can be treated and this epidemic of prescribed opioids is something that we can fix.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I was writing about, without realizing it.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday.

By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.