Quotes About Addiction

I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.

Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence. Since they have little control over their own lives and feelings, they become addicted to the omnipotence that control over someone else's life gives them. Therefore, they will kill repetitively. It restores the mental imbalance they experience whenever their self-worth is challenged.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

Tenho medo que a liberdade se torne um vício

The other danger in becoming involved with culinary delights—and here again the parallels with sex are obvious—is that they can become addictive. It

La persona que no puede resistirse a la comida o al alcohol, o cuya mente está siempre pensando en el sexo, no es libre para dirigir su energía psíquica.

Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be enjoyable, but these episodes of flow do not add up to a sense of satisfaction and happiness over time. Pleasure does not lead to creativity, but soon turns into addiction—the thrall of entropy.

one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat.

I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable.

I learned that the only way to handle feelings is to get hostile, drunk, or stoned. That's what my parents did. That's what my brothers did. And that's what I did. I was addicted to drugs for years before I began to realize that if I didn't deal with my feelings, I would be dead.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.

My problem wasn't drinking and drugs, I decided – it was daylight.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For

Suddenly I want him to stick one of the syringes into me so I can go into a deep sleep and never wake up and never feel this bad ever again.

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We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

Maybe you're just addicted to the truth and not my words.

No one knows the cure for addiction. In other words, certainty is a dream and the time to stop is unknown; even after feeling pain.

Perhaps detachment cannot be achieved by anyone. Even Gautama Buddha was addicted to meditation.