Quotes About Addiction

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive.

Living like this is a full-time business.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

The underlying addiction is to this dream of lasting pleasure and comfort.

theism is an addiction. We're all addicted to hope - hope that the doubt and mystery will go away.

we are all addicted to avoiding pain.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of your addiction.

Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

It was the feel of the cigarette between his fingers he wanted, the sharp intake of tobacco smoke into the lungs, not some slow oozing of poison through his skin into his blood. Pity about the health problems. He felt rather like St. Augustine must have felt when he wrote in his Confessions: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Se o viciado é o último a saber que é um viciado, então talvez o homem seja o último a saber que está de fato dizendo o que ele próprio diz. - O homem duplo

If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

Der Geist eines Junkies ist wie die Musik, die du aus dem Radiowecker hörst - manchmal klingt sie ja ganz hübsch, aber sie ist nur dazu da, dich zu etwas Bestimmtem zu veranlassen. Die Musik aus dem Radiowecker soll dich aufwecken; die Musik des Junkies soll dich in ein Werkzeug zur Beschaffung von immer mehr Stoff verwandeln.