Quotes About Addiction

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Before he began destroying the stock, he was aware of no intention to do it. The only correlative to the impulse that he could think of – and this was a thought that occurred to him mid-act, as he hefted a three litre jar of psychofuel above his head, the top of his skull lifted off, holes drilled in his spine, anger playing him like a flute – was when he was a recidivist in his addictions, and would find himself honking up the grokk without really wanting it.

We have become people of the device.

Social media is like a drug that has been on the market for twenty years before they discover it is causing cancer.

Ces déclarations doivent décrire sans dissimulation les effets du tabac sur la santé des fumeurs et mentionner le fait que le tabagisme tue en moyenne plus de 1 200 Américains par jour, plus que les meurtres, le sida, le suicide, la drogue, l'alcool et les accidents de voiture réunis1382

le tabagisme tue près de 6 millions de personnes chaque année.

Le tabac a provoqué 100 millions de morts au XXe siècle.

I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.

Litigation can become as great a passion as gambling.

In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

O amor vicia mesmo antes de acontecer. Isso aprendi. Como também aprendi que os sonhos se apuram de tanto se repetirem.

Nor did I grasp the capacity of love's absence to destroy, that my lack of love for myself made my own life unbearable. You take someone whose life experiences have taught them they're worthless, string them out on drugs, and you have one miserable person. How could I have given what I didn't have? It's hard to value another life when you view your own as dispensable, hard to understand how you can have so great an effect on someone else when you don't think you matter.

Fast cars are my only vice.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

He'd almost forgotten how much he loved the cigarettes, what a poisonous comfort they were.

life without coffee is not really life.

He gorged himself on sugar and alcohol—it was the quickest way to gain weight, and he liked the feeling of inebriation.