Quotes About Addiction

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

All people are enslaved by something.

Thinking about sense-objects Will attach you to sense-objects; Grow attached, and you become addicted; Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger; Be angry, and you confuse your mind; Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience; Forget experience, you lose discrimination; Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose.

You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

No matter how hard you might try, you can't escape the spiritual bond between you and your Maker. You can't drink it away. You can't smoke it away. You can't sex it away.

first things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

It's bitterness that drives you to alcohol or drugs or food or pornography or anything else as a method of coping with your season of suffering. When you've been consumed by bitterness, you develop a desire to consume anything that will get the taste out of your mouth—