Quotes About Dependency

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.

The desire to drink comes from the Big Monster—the illusion that drinking gives us pleasure or support. • The edgy feeling we get when we're without a drink is merely the Little Monster wanting to be fed. • The Little Monster was created by drinking in the first place. • Therefore drinking does not relieve the anxiety, it causes it.

what we are 'enjoying' when we smoke after a period of abstinence is not the cigarette, but ending the state of wanting or needing it.

It's not your personality that addicts you, but an addictive drug.

The body cannot crave nicotine. Only the brain can crave.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

These cigarettes are the equivalent of wearing tight shoes to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Men without wives might as well be men without mothers; they are more orphans than widowers. Men without wives, they lose their spines, their ability to walk tall in the world, even to wipe the shaving foam from their ears. Men need women more than women need men; isn't that the untold secret of the world?

What most business, political and civil leaders have not yet clearly understood is a simple fact: An advanced economy needs an advanced society, for every economy is a product of the society in which it is embedded and is dependent on its key institutions.

Whitney sipped, still not looking up from her phone. "Mmm, perfect," she said. Whitney loved being cared for, and she did look after me as well. If sometimes it felt as if she treated me like staff, I could live with that. Wasn't I using her, too, in my own way? Would I still love her if she were poor, or less influential, less glamorous? I liked to think I would, but I couldn't know for sure.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

It wasn't lost on Vick that he was giving her the same compliments she'd just given Tallow. Some people you reel in by making them think they need you. More often, it's making them think you need them. People want to feel good about themselves. Want to feel needed. Vick wondered if she'd been reeled in already. Long ago.

If you can suspend people in feelings of lack, fear, anger, opposition, prejudice, pain, sadness, and anxiety, they remain dependent on someone or something outside of them to make those feelings go away. If you remain in a perpetual state of busyness, and are always preoccupied in survival emotions, you never actually have the opportunity to believe in yourself

emotional addictions

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe. When Wayne fell asleep, his hot cheek against her naked breast, his lips smelling sweetly of the milk from her own body, she felt as if she was the one who had been fed.

Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene Harper

Habia creído que el amor tenia algo que ver con la felicidad, pero resulto que no estaban en absoluto relacionados. El amor tenia mas de necesidad, lo mismo que comer, que respirar.

But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene

Written in faded blue letters, ornate, almost Gothic, across Gil's chest, were two lines: It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. —G. Greene

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.