Quotes About Addiction

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Bob, he's been crazy for weeks. A big job went wrong and he had to lie low and he got in with a man who put him on to some drug or other—Mary Warner, may be." She lowered her voice over the mobsman's name for the drug marihuana.

People knit for their own reasons, but some of the most intense knitters I know are the ones who used it to help them quit smoking. It's a perfect plan, really; knitting keeps your hands busy, and it is relaxing and repetitive enough to hold off most of the urges to smoke. You get to spend your cigarette money on yarn, a powerful motivator, and two weeks after you quit you have four sweaters, three hats, and several really big afghans. Knitting can be a useful tool for self-improvement.

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

Addiction by any other name is love.

Life is an addiction Wind to feel, Love to crave, Power to have, Cigarette's to smoke.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me

Inequality breeds depression, addiction, resignation, and physical symptoms including premature aging, that affect the entire population. In other words, the well-being of individuals, rich or poor, is mutually dependent.

Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering and death, our culture adheres to its ideas in spite of ample, clear evidence they will lead to suffering and death.

She was a junkie for the printed word. And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.

Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.

He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.

We're all junkies. It's just different drugs. I wish I had yours, but I don't.

two packs of cigarettes

She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail." "You don't sound like you have a lot of sympathy." "I do to an extent. I've dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it's hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others.

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm