Quotes About Addiction

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.