Quotes About Addiction

Like the saber-toothed tiger's fangs, or the Alpha Male's testosterone, there's just more Beta Male imagination than can really be put to good use. Consequently, a lot of Beta Males become hypochondriacs, neurotics, paranoids, or develop an addiction to porn or video games.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

Smartphones, devastating the world one instantly delivered tragedy at a time.

I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.

religion is or has sometimes been the opium of the people, more often than not it has been its cocaine.

There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.

Por todo lo cual, estaba reflexionando que, si a veces la religión es o ha sido el opio del pueblo, quizá más a menudo ha sido su cocaína

in the country that is most addicted to excessive driving. Detailed

It's your fault because you got me into Morag Fraser. I'd never even heard of the Hebridean Harpies series till you dragged me along to her event. And now I am totally hooked. I was reading Vampires on Vatersay till one in the morning. I just had to finish it. And then I started Banshees of Berneray at breakfast and I could hardly drag myself away from it to come and meet you.

Oh, for that first hit of the day, the blessed nicotine hitting the bloodstream and snapping the synapses to attention.

So you're a functioning drunk. You don't have to be falling down in the street or pissing yourself or sleeping with unsuitable men or losing whole days at a time to be a drunk.

Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!

Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements.

She's my heroine. You know that.' Leni knew it wasn't a good thing, not a normal mom-and-dad thing, to compare your love to a drug that could hollow your body and fry your brain and leave you for dead. But they said it to each other all the time.

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

Katherine, after all, had a way of turning all her feelings into food for the demons.

You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes," and understood finally what that phrase meant.