Addiction Quotes · Page 37

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that…

— Stephen Levine

“The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to…

— H. Alazhar

Addiction's some kind of disease? No, it's not. It's a mask for pain that usually comes from childhood and fatherlessness.

— Mike Lindell

Can I survive all the implications? Even if I tried could you be less than an addiction.

— Melissa Etheridge

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.”

— Hannibal Lecture

Here's the thing about your past: You decide how long it lasts; present mind may seem blurred, but you're far more conscious…

— Jamie Timbre

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

— David Ryan

“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes…

— Geoffrey Wood

“I think that anyone who is a true junkie has an innate kinship with other junkies. Somehow I knew that we shared…

— Slash

For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive…

— Rachel Simmons

“See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness…

— Galina Nelson

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world…

— Craig Ferguson

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy…

— Max Lerner

Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people]…

— Tim DeChristopher

This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our…

— Russell Peters

“Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds…

— David Foster Wallace

“Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown…

— Albert J. LaChance

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes…

— Maia Szalavitz

“I thought I’d at least healed something during rehab and my year of sex addiction therapy, but clearly all I did was…

— Neil Strauss

Don't always feel bad when you lose something in life. always remember that in life, for you to gain something, you have…

— Rosesharon

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it is manifested…

— Gabor Maté

“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us…

— Christopher Hawke

I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When…

— Nikki Sixx

Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

— Rita Schiano

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

— Robert Downey, Jr

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

— Jay Inslee

“There is nothing between us but raw emotion, and it's painful yet has the sweet sting of addiction.”

— Penelope Fletcher

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

— Robert Trout

“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.”

— Malcolm Lowry

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously…

— Freda Adler

Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but…

— Chris Murphy

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and…

— Chath Piersath

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A…

— Anonymous

“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

— David Sheff

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

— Christopher Lasch

“And you are not protective of your husband by staying with him if he does not overcome his addiction to blame.”

— Steven Stosny

I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that.

— Ruben Gallego

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is…

— Davina McCall

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to…

— Dennis Farina