Quotes About Addiction

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

Actually, I think living's the worst habit.

Holly sighs. "I'm out of cigarettes, too." "Those things will kill you," Jerome says. She gives him a flat look. "Yes! That's part of their charm.

losers so dumb that they mistook wrapping themselves in the chains of addiction as an act of rebellion.

Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it.

by 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right.

We drank because we're drunks. We never get better. We get a daily reprieve based on our spiritual condition, and that's it.

I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it's probably a bad marriage.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

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

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.

Liv runs. Every morning, and some evenings too. Running has taken the place of thinking, of eating, sometimes of sleeping. She runs until her shins burn and her lungs feel as if they will explode...She plugs in her iPod earphones, closes the door of the block, rams her keys into the pocket of her shorts, and sets off at a pace. She lets her mind flood with the deafening thumping beat, dance music so relentless that it leaves no room for thought.

Still watches too much porn, though. You can tell.

The book talked about how after people play a round of golf they usually don't think about all the bad shots they made but rather always remember and focus on the one great shot they had that day. The thought and feeling they get when thinking about this shot makes them want to play again and again; this is why so many people get addicted to golf.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.