Addiction Quotes

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

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.'

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

I've triumphed over addiction.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Romantic love is an addiction.

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.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

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.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.