Quotes About Addiction

She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit.

Those in the grip of a strong drug - heroin, devil grass, true love - often find themselves trying to maintain a precarious balance between secrecy and ecstasy as they walk the tightrope of their lives. Keeping one's balance on a tightrope is difficult under the soberest of circumstances; doing so while in a state of delirium is all but impossible.

Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs. And instead of meeting these needs, the tools and approaches of time management often feed the addiction. They keep us focused on daily prioritization of the urgent.

Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs.

The results of a 1995 study conducted by Harvard Medical School indicated that alcoholics have a better chance of quitting drinking if they don't attend AA than if they do. Americans seldom hear about such results, in part because AA and its sister organizations have actively opposed independent research that could test their programs' effectiveness.

Un estudio descubrió que más del 25% de los homicidios cometidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1988 estaban relacionados con el crack.

Given that seven of the top twenty most-visited sites on the Web are porn sites, and that nearly 33 percent of all Internet searches are for terms related to sex, it's safe to say that we're sinking a ton of time and money into digital voyeurism.

But, seriously, when in history did fear of death ever come between a man and his drugs?

While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale isn't always safe and secure. Outside the fence of state-sanctioned consciousness, there are, to be sure, peaks of profound insight and inspiration. But there are also the swamps of addiction, superstition, and groupthink, where the unprepared can get stuck.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.