Quotes About Addiction

What is it with you and frozen desserts Why do you always want them?" "Because we live in a dessert.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.

If drugs could heal what was broken inside her, she'd be an addict. Who wouldn't? Sometimes life hurt, and you just had to suck it up. It

It's not really about collecting the thing itself," Laroche went on. "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.

the kind of person who liked to have two cigarettes going at the same time.

when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine.… it's a sort of madness.…

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

Two of the most productive writers in history, Voltaire and Balzac, were also among the greatest coffee addicts in history. So far, caffeine hasn't made me nearly that productive, but I can hope.

He hoped he had nurtured her long enough, that she perceived all that he valued: the lure of Telling and the delirium of Remembering, the addiction of Uncovering and the libation of Testimony.

Relentless repetition was usually needed when dealing with alcohol and idiots.

But I heard that the worst of your addictions started while you were making Kill Zone II.

Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying

You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk.

Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,' " says Plutarch.

I'm getting the white liquor because a few weeks ago he ran out and there was none for sale and he had a withdrawal, shaking and screaming at terrifying things only he could see.

we all have a God-sized hole inside of us that no amount of addictions or compulsions can fill.