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Quotes About Addiction

Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum
~ John Candy
When she's drinking, it's bad, but when she's not drinking, well, it's like living with a bomb in the house. The bomb is ticking, and you know it's going to explode, so you just spend your days waiting for the bang. And when it happens, you're almost relieved.
~ John Connolly
God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don't try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all pleasure. You will be amazed to find that He has perfectly and supernaturally designed you to have all your deepest needs met in Him
~ John Crowder
God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.
~ John Crowder
Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.
~ John Urschel
The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'
~ Matthew Perry
I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.
~ Crispin Glover
Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around
~ Pete Townshend
I think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool.
~ Mariel Hemingway
Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.
~ Steven Morrissey
Life without chocolate is just an existence
~ Sue Costello
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
~ Kate Morton
What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
Habit is the strongest thing in life.
~ Jack Black
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
~ William S. Burroughs
Ever since I've switched to the clean syringes, I've never felt better in my entire life.
~ Andy Kindler
Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.
~ Barbara Goldsmith
I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.
~ Beatrice Sparks
To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
~ Ben Harper
Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.
~ Berti Vogts
Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.
~ Chelsea Handler
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
~ Edward Gorey