Quotes About Dependency

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

You really can't function without a phone or an iPad.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.

Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.