Addiction Quotes

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

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!

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

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

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

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

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

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 Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

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

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

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

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

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

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

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

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.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

The only cure for addiction is spiritual.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

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.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.