Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I…

— Robbin Crosby

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do…

— Stephen King

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart…

— Jim Irsay

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

— Ruben Gallego

“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his…

— Nikki Sixx

“Oil. The great addiction of the civilized world”

— Andrew Warren

“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.”

— Anonymous

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Dolly Parton

“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”

— Bella James

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to…

— Keith Miller

Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you.

— Bullet For My Valentine

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

— Joseph Addison

“Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.”

— David Norman

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb