Quotes About Dependency

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

I'm an alcoholic who doesn't (and doesn't want to) drink anymore so I exist in a state of never-ending micro-addictions that reveal themselves in the form of obsessions.

As charming as the room was, I knew it wouldn't work for me. I do not need charming. I need to be online, at all times. I need surge protection.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Nothing is given to man on earth. Everything he needs has to be produced. And here man faces his basic alternative: he can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows. The creator faces nature alone. The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.

So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men?

We are nothing mankind is all

The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

Tech made all things possible, and therefore mandatory. Not to mention the fact that carrying around all this smartphone in your purse or pocket had become such a fantastic drag. Cranial implant was so much easier. Now they could be in touch with the hive 24/7 and have their hands free for whatever. Their cars drove them everywhere, too. Also left them free to, you know, do whatever.

The idea that in prehistoric times a man would spend his life hunting only for the benefit of his own wife and children, who were dependent solely upon his hunting prowess for survival, is simply a projection of 1950s marital norms onto the past.

I think that's the nature of many relationships anyway, most relationships. There's that element of….you would call it prostitution.

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.

When a codependent is drowning, somebody else's life flashes before his eyes.

Free samples are fine, but if you give people too much for-free, whether it's clothes or food or information, they come to expect it.

I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it's probably a bad marriage.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

Love starts when people don't need it and ends when they need it the most.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.