Addiction Quotes · Page 41

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

— Rush Limbaugh

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises…

— Mae Martin

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives…

— Armistead Maupin

“Addiction,” I say simply. “It can span an entire lifetime if untreated.” “What’s the treatment?” “I don’t really care.” “Me neither,” she…

— Tarryn Fisher

Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex; deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic…

— Warren Farrell

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

— R. J. Reynolds

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can…

— Nicole Scherzinger

“addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.”

— Lou Gramm

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself.…

— Dolly Parton

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every…

— Anonymous

Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open,…

— Angel Grant

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just…

— David Sheff

One of the enemys favorite lies is to tell you that nothing is ever going to change. Hell tell you that youre…

— Sammykabyemera

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated…

— Anne Wilson Schaef

“I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown…

— Henry Rollins

Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes…

— Stanton Peele

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“No easy way out. No escape. From yourself. You had to LEARN to DEAL with the cards you were dealt. Had to…

— Lydia Lunch

“If you ask me, the church needs a whole lot more grace addicts because grace has a name, and the name is…

— Louie Giglio

• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure…

— Marya Hornbacher

“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery…

— David Foster Wallace

WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing…

— Pema Chodron

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

— Frank Iero

“There’s irony in a beautiful curl slowly turning into a tangled mess, beyond resurrection, in a matter of minutes.”

— Shelley Taylor

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

— Anonymous

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

— David Sheff

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black…

— Ray Charles

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear…

— Chino Moreno

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

— Shane Koyczan

“Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.”

— David W Earle

Tweeting is the new social addictions that causes everyone to wonder who someone is talking about

— Taelor Chardae

Trapped within your own apathy. Spiraling into a cycle of loss. Beaten mind with a bruised reflection. It's addiction to failure of…

— Hatebreed

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

— William S. Burroughs

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that…

— Wendell Berry

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

— John Mayer

Everyone is an addict. Some are to drugs, some to women, some to their past, some to their future.

— Ash Sweeney

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson