Quotes About Addiction

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Listen, friend, I've known a lot of drunks in my time. You look at four, five months being sober and think it's eternity. But me, I see a man still brushing the puke from his clothes. A man who could get knocked right back down.

Release gets addictive, you see. It becomes a fixed behaviour, as destructive as any other. Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.

To remember rape is to fold details into sensation, and so relive each time its terrible truth. He told you this could become habit, an addiction, until even despair became a welcome taste on your tongue. Understand, then - as only you can here - that to take one's own life is the final expression of despair. You saw that. Buruk the Pale. You felt that, at the sea's edge.

She told herself the mantra of all addicts: that she could always quit tomorrow.

The problem was me. I was...I was a pathological liar. Or am, I should say. Lying is like alcoholism, one is always "recovering".

Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

It is an addictive substance, life.

Once you have been touched by them, it becomes an addiction.

I swear it's true. If I lie to you, may I be changed into a sofa belonging to a fat family addicted to daytime TV and baked beans." (Fred to Jess)

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.