Quotes About Addiction

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Those struggling with addiction deserve nothing less than our best and we will not fail them.

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

I'm talking about some real subjects and issues in my standup. I'm attempting to make a point about technology and how it's changing our society and our lives, and our addiction to social media, and how it affects marriages and relationships.

I listen to a lot of Sublime. Dude, I'm obsessed with Sublime. You have no idea.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose.

The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets

Oh, Tookie, I never wagered your lip nookie. In your eyes is the only place I wanna lookie. You've taught me 'bout loving and giving, I was a rookie. You're so pure and sweet. And now I'm hookie. On Tookieeeeee.

A un borracho se le puede hablar -me decía una vez- y hasta dice cosas, pero ¿quien resiste la conversación de un jugador o un mujeriego? No hay por debajo de ella sino la de un aficionado a toros, colmo y copete de la estupidez.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

The challenge for human beings is not how to avoid suffering, but how to face the pain that is inherent in our lives, and how not to create more suffering by our desperate attempt to avoid pain. Addiction is, perhaps, the most desperate measure we employ to escape suffering.

Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'

Consumption seems to be our favorite high, our nationally sanctioned addiction, the all-American form of substance abuse.

Mortimer had maxed three credit cards stocking the cave with canned goods and medical supplies and tools and everything a man needed to live through the end of the world. There were more than a thousand books along shelves in the driest part of the cave. There used to be several boxes of pornography until Mortimer realized that he'd spent nearly ten days in a row sitting in the cave masturbating. He burned the dirty magazines to keep from doing some terrible whacking injury to himself.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.