Quotes About Addiction

The first time I kissed you. One kiss, I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you.

But he could tell your father. He might be angry." I said it almost desperately. Soon my skin would grow too warm, and I would no longer be able to think. "So what if he is?" The first time he had said something like this, I had been shocked. That his father might be angry and Achilles would still do as he wished—it was something I did not understand, could barely imagine. It was like a drug to hear him say it. I never tired of it.

Il pensiero che suo padre potesse essere in collera e che tuttavia Achille continuasse a fare ciò che voleva, era una cosa incomprensibile per me, a stento immaginabile. Sentirglielo dire era come una droga. Non ne avevo mai abbastanza.

Drinking when you are depressed is like throwing kerosene on a fire", I read in another self-help book at the bookstore. What depression felt like a fire? I think, shoving the book back on the shelf.

And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Sabes cuál es la diferencia entre un adicto y un enfermo?... Que el adicto puede dejar de serlo en cualquier momento y el enfermo no. Es tan sencillo como chasquear los dedos, decir basta. Se acabó.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.

you experience the one thing that drunks and druggies and all the miserable, lonely, unhappy people in this world share.' 'And what's that?

Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.

Peu de gens savent que fumer des cigarettes tue. En même temps, je ne vois pas ce qu'on peut en faire d'autre...On ne va pas le manger ou se les glisser dans le rectum, tout de même

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

Addictive drugs convert the brain to recognize only one face of God, to thrill to only one suitor.

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

I don't have a problem with treason," I said. "I can stop anytime." I

There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway. New planet, new life.

It was the black jellybeans that did it.

There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway.

And that's the great thing about Ye Olde Peruvian Marching Powder, he went on. It's like psychic Saran Wrap: it locks in freshness so well that you can't even feel your own soul ticking, much less anyone else's.

I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.

He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

I can handle it. I'm no addict, I'm a recreational killer. Yeah Harry says, like Hitler was a recreational killer.