Addiction Quotes - Page 2

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

Do not let your fire go out.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction