Quotes About Addiction

He's not burying you, Mallory. He's freeing you. Excavating you from a mountain of heroin and bringing you back to society. And look at you now!

Over several months, the drug had completely rewired my brain, hijacking more and more of my pain receptors, and now I needed OxyContin simply to exist. I couldn't sleep, or eat, or focus in class. And no one warned me this was going to happen. No one told me to expect a struggle.

No te tomes nada personalmente porque, si lo haces, te expones a sufrir por nada. Los seres humanos somos adictos al sufrimiento en diferentes niveles y distintos grados; nos apoyamos los unos a los otros para mantener esta adicción. Hemos acordado ayudarnos mutuamente a sufrir. Si tienes la necesidad de que te maltraten, será fácil que los demás lo hagan.

I read like fiends smoke crack

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

There are many people who are always waiting for the next thing to react against, to feel annoyed or disturbed about—and it never takes long before they find it. "This is an outrage," they say. "How dare you…." "I resent this." They are addicted to upset and anger as others are to a drug. Through reacting against this or that they assert and strengthen their feeling of self.

So when watching television, the tendency is for you to fall below thought, not rise above it. Television has this in common with alcohol and certain other drugs. While it provides some relief from your mind, you again pay a high price: loss of consciousness. Like those drugs, it too has a strong addictive quality.

Si no fuera por el alcohol, los tranquilizantes, los antidepresivos así como las drogas ilegales, que son todos consumidos en grandes cantidades, la demencia de la mente humana sería aún mucho más evidente de lo que lo es ya.

Every addiction reaches a point where it does not work for you anymore, and then you feel the pain more intensely than ever.

This kind of compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It seems stronger than you. It also gives you a false sense of pleasure, pleasure that invariably turns into pain.

As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy. This kind of compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It seems stronger than you.

What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It

Todas las adicciones surgen de una negativa inconsciente a encarar y traspasar el propio dolor. Todas las adicciones empiezan con dolor y terminan con dolor. Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to — alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person — you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain. And what is often referred to as love may be pleasurable and exciting for a while, but it is an addictive clinging, an extremely needy condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch.

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Workaholism is an addictive disorder in which work is the only thing that gives you a sense of inner fulfillment and self-worth.

Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!

The way other people felt about love, he felt about heroin, and he felt about love the way other people felt about heroin: that it was a dangerous and incomprehensible waste of time.

Once he had taken heroin he could imagine being without it;