Addiction Quotes

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know, she'd be like keep me away from those chocolate bars, I'm addicted to them. And it's really annoying. So one day I put her in the car and I drove her downtown and I pointed out a crack addict. And I said you see that honey? Why can't you be that skinny?

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.

I dwell in possibility.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.