Quotes About Addiction

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good," he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

My love of buttered popcorn has never been a secret. It runs deeper than a bottomless jumbo tub, free refills and all. It's my favorite food.

Social media and I have had a very tumultuous relationship.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

When I was at Duke, I finally had an avocado - accidentally - on a turkey sandwich. I was hooked. Next thing I know, I couldn't get enough guacamole.

If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways.

If you're an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.