Addiction Quotes - Page 4

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Take a chance! All life is a chance