Addiction Quotes

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion?

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

Spending is an addiction.

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.