Quotes About Addiction

What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?

Cell phones are to adults what toy rattles are to infants.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

If you smoke cigarettes, take the advice of a dead man and stop immediately.

Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? We've lost our minds.

smoked three packs

With a steady supply guaranteed, the judge really went off the deep end and things deteriorated. He couldn't do his job, couldn't sit on the bench for more than fifteen minutes without calling a recess for a quick snort. The lawyers were whispering but, as usual, didn't want to squeal. A court reporter was watching closely and knew the dirt.

my mother, who could not have been smarter or more unselfish in life except in this one very specific area. I inherited her dumbness regarding cigarettes for the same dumb reason many dumbs do: it feels good, once it stops feeling terrible. And plus no one is ever going to die, so why not?

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

faith without doubt is addiction

Ebay is probably the most dangerous place to hang around after a night of drinking.

A shot to kill the pain. A pill to drain the shame. A purge to end the gain. A cut to break the vein. A smoke to ease the crave. A drink to win the game. An addiction is an addiction because it all hurts the same.

Some people are like a drug. They make you feel good but they also give you side effects like heartbreak, watery eyes, and stress.

Falling in love with YOU was never my intention. but it became my ADDICTION.