Quotes About Addiction

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.

Maybe you're even just a collection of bad habits.

He said he had parents who were desperate anti-social alcoholic addicted friendless and that they didn't want him to leave their home. He was the only relationship they had and he asked what he should do and I told him that he should leave.

It will render you more likely to abuse cocaine and alcohol, as you live for the present in a world full of uncertain futures.

I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear. "Maybe he's got one... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.

You shot heroin in the bathroom while I was disinfecting the kitchen. Didn't you?" "Of course not." He pulled on his gloves and led the way into the building. "I hatched from a pod and hid the real Jonathan under the floorboards." "You're much less creepy when you're pensive and focused. Just so you know.

That was so not fair. My life was perfectly fine until suddenly I had this live-in boyfriend who wanted to interact with me, and I realized that I was almost always high.

Sem dinheiro, não se fazia nada. Ou nós, viciados nele, não sabíamos fazer nada sem ele.

I've long since lost my taste for good coffee," he says. "I much prefer the kind that sooner or later, if you keep on drinking it, your hands will begin to shake and the whites of your eyes will turn yellow.

There is, however, one other figurative representative of humanity in which we fail to recognize our own scornful and pitiful selves at our peril. That pathetic figure reflecting the readers back to themselves very uncomfortably is Gollum. Seldom or perhaps never in the field of human literature has the human soul in a state of addiction to sin been portrayed with such psychological realism and spiritual brilliance.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS." - Wade Owen Watts Ready Player One

The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I

I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in front of me, entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. In

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the guy. Back