Quotes About Addiction

I didn't know how to be with a man who wanted to be with me." The softness had drained away. "I was addicted to Kenny's uncertainty, that niggling little doubt in my gut that made me wonder if I could survive without him. I thought I could fix the pain inside of him. It took me a long time to realize that the pain was inside of me.

Lydia asked, "Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol?" Claire struggled to return the glass to the floor. "Yes. The problem is that I don't like them very much.

No one saw it at the time, but her addiction had never been about the high, it has been about the escape. She had been actively seeking ways to destroy herself.

The addict's credo: It's always somebody else's fault.

out by opioids or willful denial. It was like her emotional maturation had stopped the second she'd swallowed that first Oxycontin.

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her

The glowing screen made her feel oddly at ease. She had been without her phone or iPad all night. Andy had not realized how much time she wasted listening to Spotify or checking Instagram and Snapchat and reading blogs and doing Hogwarts house sorting quizzes until she lacked the means to access them.

You can't throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days." She sighed. "If only we had more bricks.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.