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Quotes About Addiction

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble
~ John Warren Kindt
I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
~ Zoe Kravitz
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
~ Alcoholics Anonymous
Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.)
~ Trish Jackson
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
~ Clarence Day
Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
~ Jackson Browne
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
~ Namie Amuro
I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.
~ Elton John
My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.
~ Columba Bush
the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?
~ Sonia Sanchez
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
~ Eminem
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!
~ Homer
My mother is still battling alcoholism.
~ Patrick J. Kennedy
I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...
~ Mark Boone Junior
Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.
~ Elsa Pataky
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
~ Chrissie Wellington
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
~ Miles Davis
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
~ Pietro Mascagni
What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.
~ Peggy Lee
Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.
~ Neil Young
Music is the brandy of the damned.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!
~ Elvis Presley
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
~ Nina Simone
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.