Quotes About Addiction

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements and creating e-cigarette flavors like bubblegum and cotton candy, to addict our children early - and guarantee another generation of smokers.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

Alcoholics are utterly dear one minute, but there is also a blanket hatred with which you cannot reason.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

I really feel like social media - it's like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it's this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it's like you don't know how to soothe yourself, and I think it's very pernicious.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

The iPad is becoming the babysitter... Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

Als ik niet meer zou kunnen vissen, zou ik een grote voorraad morfine aanleggen en diep het bos intrekken. Ik zou een afgelegen plek kiezen waar niemand ooit mijn lijk zou vinden en van waaruit ik een prachtig uitzicht zou hebben. Ik zou met mijn gezicht naar dat uitzicht gaan liggen - en mijn morfine nemen.

I'm not addicted to books. I can stop reading once I've finished one more chapter.

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves

Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

She snuggled into bed with them, looking up from time to time, saying she was sorry, she knew she should be doing something more productive, but like Dad, she had her addictions, and one of hers was reading.

I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.