Quotes About Addiction

El alcohol suplió la función que no tuvo Dios, también tuvo la de matarme, la de matar.

Boire ce n'est pas obligatoirement vouloir mourir, non. Mais on ne peut pas boire sans penser qu'on se tue. Vivre avec l'alcool, c'est vivre avec la mort à la portée du main. Ce qui empêche de se tuer quand on est fou de l'ivresse alcoolique, c'est l'idée qu'une fois mort on ne boira plus.

Hi, my name is Sunny and I'm a bloodoholic.

I remember reading somewhere that the chemicals produced in the brain by a lengthy Twitter session are similar to those produced by cocaine.

We are the richest nation on earth, yet our incarceration, drug addiction, and child poverty rates are among the highest in the industrialized world.

Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen

Fear is our shared lovelessness, our individual and collective hells. It's a world that seems to press on us from within and without, giving constant false testimony to the meaninglessness of love. When fear is expressed, we recognize it as anger, abuse, disease, pain, greed, addiction, selfishness, obsession, corruption, violence, and

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

Bija prieks atkal piev?rsties rakst?šanai ar galvu, kas skaidra no koka?na un patiesas m?lest?bas.

Drugs kept people alive in a realm of dreams and hope.

The way to healing an addiction lies in finding a connection between body and soul.

Cigarettes are food for the soul

Caffeine can be inhaled.

We now know—because it has been scientifically proven—that sugar is more powerfully addictive than alcohol, cocaine, or even heroin (and if you're thinking about going for diet soda instead, take note: Artificial sweeteners may be more addictive than regular sugar).

epithet of the drunkard's biscuit.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Only one in four has a chance at making it.... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me . I was going to live. I was the guy.

the legends persist, of Sichuanese cooks spiking their dishes with opium. Nothing else explains the powerful addiction one develops to something that just hurts so bad.

It is one of the central ironies of my career that as soon as I got off heroin, things started getting really bad.

I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from sensation to sensation. I was a disgrace, a disappointment to friends and family and myself – and the drugs and the booze no longer chased that disappointment away.

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.