Quotes About Addiction

he smokes so much it as if he is turning himself into ash.

Una adicción es una incapacidad de colonizar el futuro y, en cuanto tal, realiza una transgresión de las primeras preocupaciones con las que deben lidiar reflexivamente los individuos.

I held out the packet and suddenly we were friends. That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.

Internet gambling is a horrible thing,' Hawthorne went on, and for once he sounded genuinely sympathetic. 'Your son was one of around three hundred thousand addicts in the country. There are about five hundred deaths a year and most of them are young men, university students, kids living alone. And the big online gambling companies … they know what they're doing with those bright lights and flashing colours, the personalised texts and emails

You didn't mention he had a child.' 'I mentioned he had a cocaine habit.

It was as if he had recognised how few pleasures he had in his life, making him all the more determined to cling on to the few that remained. Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.

These days, I hardly know anyone who smokes but Hawthorne was still getting through about a packet a day, which was why we usually met outside coffee shops, sitting in the street.

That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

I'm a shopaholic. I really am. I can't help myself. I do go into, browse, and purchase from my own shops, too, although the CEOs who run my businesses wish I didn't.

I used to think if I didn't have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I'd drink purely to get drunk.

I first felt the addictive power of 'Game of Thrones' when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was also pursued relentlessly, albeit far less colourfully. Certainly, the characters of my world were nowhere near as good looking or exotically dressed.

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

I'm calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.