Addiction Quotes

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

I have a writing addiction.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.