Quotes About Addiction

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

Connectivity becomes a craving.

Instead of thinking about addiction, it makes sense to confront this reality: We are faced with technologies to which we are extremely vulnerable and we don't always respect that fact. The path forward is to learn more about our vulnerabilities. Then, we can design technology and the environments in which we use them with these insights in mind. For example, since we know that multitasking is seductive but not helpful to learning, it's up to us to promote "unitasking.

From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

And then Shin started to make gentle love to me. Every touch drove me wild and I began to moan and beg him to do it harder. Suddenly he stopped and looked at me. "Shoko! You're high right now, aren't you?" "What?" "I can tell when you are. Your reactions aren't the same at all." His words made me feel dirty. The innocent version of me, the girl who had walked happily hand in hand with Shin, no longer existed.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

It takes him long time, but eventually Simon is able to explain. A computer is a magical box that provides endless pleasure for free. Simon is used to constant access to this box—a never-ending flow of pleasures. When the box stops working—or even just briefly slows down—he becomes so enraged that he curses our God, the one who gave

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

El deseo por abalanzarme sobre sus brazos y sentir su calor rodeándome es tan poderoso que me pregunto si es médicamente posible sentir una adicción semejante por Otro ser humano. -Brit

I take a long drag, thankful for nicotine. I feel calmer immediately. Okay, so my lungs are probably shriveled up, but I have a good idea I'll probably die before my lungs decide to quit on me.