Quotes About Addiction

I stand there sipping and savoring for over ten minutes, thinking of the man I read about who weighed six hundred pounds from drinking vast amounts of tap water.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Sweetheart, no one needs coffee, I just like the taste. Almost as much as I like the way you taste.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

Life is boring without weed.

Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break this habit and talk about your joys.

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

Talking about our problems is the greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

I'd get a lot more sleep if I didnt insist on reading the entire internet every night.

But now, in spite of her smiles and greetings, I failed to recognise her in a lady whose features had so gone to pieces that the outline of her face could not be restored. What had happened was that for three years she had been taking cocaine and other drugs. Her eyes deeply and darkly rimmed were haggard, her mouth had a strange twitch. She had, it seems, got up for this reception though she was in the habit of remaining in bed or on a sofa for months.

No me dejará sin fumar, es para lo único que me queda voluntad.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.

You don't even like smoking them. You just like thinking about smoking them.

It's the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.

You still eat away at me, more and more, insatiably. I'm stupid, I let you do it. But you're stupid, too. You don't realize that by eating me you're poisoning yourself,

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?