Quotes About Addiction

Most people," he said, "are desperate to be needed. And if they don't feel good about themselves or think they're undeserving of love, some will fasten upon the worst possible way to satisfy that need to punish themselves. They're the addicts, the shadows both claimed and unclaimed, passed like the fawning sheep they make themselves into as they search for a glimmer of worth, knowing it's false even as they beg for it.

I'm a five-hundred-year-old born vampire with an ever-expanding wardrobe, a serious cosmetics addiction, and enough outstanding Visa charges to fund a small third-world country.

Oh, God, my poison! I didn't know you then! Had no idea what you would come to mean to me!

All I can think about is him. His body. It's like I'm drugged. My brain goes on a loop, replaying things we've done, imagining things we'll do. I walk around in this lust-fueled haze.

America's refusal to deal with its addiction to narcotics and cheap labor was yet another gift from God. Instead of creating a coherent framework to provide those products and services, the very country that demanded them insisted that they be illegal. Predictably, the result was a spectacularly profitable black market that had generated a smuggling infrastructure unparalleled in human history.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.

With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.

List 2: Write down everything in your life that you don't want, like more panic attacks, depression, or partners who are emotionally unavailable. Maybe you'd like to stop smoking, or overeating, or drinking. Be specific and personal. This is about you. This will be your "before" picture.

recluse, I have begun to understand, is not a person for whom a connection with another person is unattainable or meaningless, but one who feels she must abstain from people because a connection is an affliction, or worse, an addiction.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Has the dark adder venom? So have I, When trod upon.