Quotes About Addiction

I'm an Internet junkie.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

It seemed to her that she'd been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.

Most addicts kill themselves by just trying to get some sleep.

Janis Joplin was always wondering when her prince would come, and the wait was such a bore that she purchased total surcease on the smooth, blank, clear, smiling lake of heroin. A famous friend of the famous

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.

I libri le avevano fatto un gran male, eccitando la sua immaginazione, pascendola di allettanti finzioni, di chimere seducenti; ma oramai era troppo tardi per smettere, il male era già fatto, e nonostante la sua sfiducia, le restava in fondo al cuore inassopito il bisogno di commozioni, di scosse, di palpiti.

Patachula habla de la información como de una droga adictiva. Cree que en el fondo no nos interesa la noticia, sino la sensación placentera que nos produce. ¡Qué alivio saber que una desgracia le ha ocurrido al prójimo y no a nosotros!

Mi amor enfermizo adoraba los libros no sólo por lo que decían sino por la materia de que eran, por el objeto en sí. Era un amor absoluto por los dos costados de la carne y el espíritu, como quien dice la total perdición.

I am about to reveal to you," I commenced, "something which I would not for my life allow to come to other ears. Do you pledge me your eternal silence?" "I do; what is the matter?" "I have been taking hasheesh—Cannabis Indica, and I fear that I am going to die.

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Tôi yêu n?i b?t h?nh c?a tôi; nó ??ng hành v?i tôi. ?ôi lúc, khi nh?t th?i th?y h?nh ph?c, tôi c?m th?y th? gì ?ó nh? th? s? thi?u v?ng n?i ?au. Ta luôn nhanh chóng tr? nên nghi?n ng?p n?i u s?u c?a chính mình.

Film lovers are sick people.

Je li to suština zaljubljenosti? Težiti onome što nikad ne?eš posti?i. Zagrliti jastuk, zrak ili rije?i koje ispijaš opet i opet iznova, kao smrtonosnu drogu.

Even though everybody knows that when you light up a cigarette God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides . . .it is time all of us . . . begin to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we place less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God.

Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but it can also become a terrible drug. The way it is used in our world is probably one of the great evils of our day. It is a self-inflicted impediment that springs from "a man taking a drink, a drink taking a drink, and drink taking the man." Distilled liquors as we have them today were unknown in Bible times.12

Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attempt to escape from the responsibilities and realities of life.

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction.