Quotes About Addiction

Hoffnung ist was sehr Widerspenstiges. Eine Sucht, die man bekämpfen muss.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control if the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow us a first definite step down some road.

The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows. The

Todas las drogas cosméticas, dijo, todos los estabilizadores del ánimo y antidepresivos, solamente tratan los síntomas de los grandes problemas. Todas las adicciones, le contó, no eran más que formas de tratar un mismo problema. Las drogas, el exceso de comida, el alcohol o el sexo, todo era una simple forma de encontrar la paz. De escapar de lo que conocemos. De nuestra educación. Eran nuestro mordisco a la manzana.

We always do this, Mr. Whittier says. For the same reason our children's children's children's children will always have war and famine and disease. Because we love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit it.

Deseaba respirar humo.

La gente si innamora del proprio dolore al punto che non riesce più ad abbandonarlo. Lo stesso vale per le storie che racconta. Siamo noi stessi a tenerci in trappola».

Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind.

S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.

Facebook is actually competing with cigarettes to be hired for the same Job to Be Done. Which the smoker chooses will depend on the circumstances of his struggle in that particular moment.

As the 1902 coffee almanac put it, 'When coffee is bad it is the wickedest thing in town; when good, the most glorious.

When coffee is bad it is the wickedest thing in town; when good, the most glorious.

Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high.

You don't think that room downstairs was made by the Devil, or his wife?" "I don't want to know who made it," Tammy said. "But I know who fed it; who made it important. People. Just like you and me. Addicted to the place.

Besides, he guessed she wouldn't have thanked him for delaying his purchase. She needed dope more than she needed him.

He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

What would he say? All the junkie shit going down these days, he opted to blame it on the drug trade. Some druggie punched him in the face, yelling something, kept going, didn't even try to take his wallet. Someone should do something about all these pushers. An enactment of how decent people felt these days: things are off-kilter, the world is overtaken by shadow.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.

Just consider the mass neurotic syndrome so pervasive in the young generation: there is ample empirical evidence that the three facets of this syndrome—depression, aggression, addiction —are due to what is called in logotherapy "the existential vacuum," a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness.

suicide can be traced back to this existential vacuum. Such widespread phenomena as depression, aggression and addiction are not understandable unless we recognize the existential vacuum underlying them.

I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.

They will let you have dope Because they are quite willing To drug you or kill you. They will let you have babies Because they are quite willing To pauperize you-- Or use your kids as labor boys For army, air force, or uranium mine. They will let you have alcohol To make you sodden and drunk And foolish. They will gleefully let you Kill your damn self any way you choose With liquor, drugs, or whatever.