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Quotes About Addiction

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
~ Henry Morgan
Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
~ Artie Lange
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
~ Aldous Huxley
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
~ John Grisham, The Testament
The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.
~ Milton R. Hunter
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
~ Charles Krauthammer
I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
~ Waylon Jennings
Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.
~ Michael Moorcock
There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.
~ Robin Williams
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
~ Jean Kilbourne
Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.
~ Dan B. Allender
Where there's dope, there's hope!
~ Philip K. Dick
Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children
~ M. Russell Ballard
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
~ Stephen King
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.
~ Michelle Monaghan
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
~ Freda Adler
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
~ Alan Kay
Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.
~ David Letterman
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
~ Robin Williams
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
~ George Burns
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
~ George Carlin