Addiction Quotes
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.
We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.
I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
