Quotes About Addiction

Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

If my room is clean, it means that my internet is not working.

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

A chatWith the Grim Reapershould be enough to scareaway any thought of relapse.Wish it were that easy, but not even days conversingwith death can disintegratethe claws of addiction.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Yes, you can get addicted to exercise.

I don't know how people say exercising is addictive.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

It takes me hours to get to sleep. I just lie there waiting, constantly thinking. I used to make lists, but it became addictive.