Quotes About Addiction

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.

It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Love! Who ever said that love made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.

No, wait, I drink any more java, I'm gonna start pissing Colombians.

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Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

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

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.