Addiction famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
-- Aaron Neville -
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
-- Aimee Mann -
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as ***** or crack cocaine...
-- Al Gore -
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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.
-- Alice Miller -
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
-- Allan Bloom -
(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.
-- Amy Smart -
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
-- Anais Nin -
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
-- Anais Nin -
Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.
-- Andre Benjamin -
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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.
-- Angela Davis -
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-- Ann Landers -
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
-- Anna Quindlen -
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
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.
-- Armistead Maupin -
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
-- Ayn Rand -
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
-- Ayn Rand -
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
-- Barack Obama -
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,
-- Barbara Cook -
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
-- Barnaby Keeney -
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
-- Bell Hooks -
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
-- Ben Nicholson -
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz -
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
-- Bernard Emond -
I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.
-- Bertice Berry -
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
-- Bertrand Russell -
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.
-- Bill Maher -
There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.
-- Bill Moyers -
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
-- Blaise Pascal -
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
-- Bob Marley -
At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.
-- Bob Menendez -
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
-- Brendan Behan -
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
-- Brené Brown -
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber
-- Brian Molko -
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
-- Calvin Miller -
Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
-- Carey Mulligan -
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
-- Carl Jung -
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.
-- Caroline Knapp -
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
-- Carrie Fisher -
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.
-- Carrie Fisher -
Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.
-- Cesare Borgia -
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.
-- Charles Adams -
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.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.
-- Charles Ferguson -
The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.
-- Cherie Currie -
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
-- Chris Hedges -
I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.
-- Chrissie Wellington -
It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else
-- Christian Louboutin -
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important
-- Christopher Meloni -
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
-- Clifford Stoll -
I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. My addiction is wrestling.
-- CM Punk -
Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
-- Colin Farrell -
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
-- Colman McCarthy -
I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
-- Columba Bush -
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.
-- Cookie Mueller -
My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
-- Corey Feldman -
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.
-- Corey Haim -
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
-- Cornel West -
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
-- Cornelius Plantinga -
Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.
-- Cornelius Plantinga -
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.
-- Craig David -
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
-- Craig Ferguson -
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.
-- Craig Ferguson -
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
-- Dale Archer -
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job, that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify,
-- Dale Archer -
Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.
-- Dan B. Allender -
I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
-- Dan Rather -
Kids are like heroin, a little ***** addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.
-- Dan Savage -
If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.
-- Dan Seals -
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
-- Dave Navarro -
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
-- David -
A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff -
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.
-- David Robertson -
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.
-- David Ryan -
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.
-- David Sheff -
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.
-- David Sheff -
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
-- David Sheff -
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....
-- David Sheff -
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
-- David Shi -
I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.
-- Davina McCall -
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.
-- Dean Koontz
