The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

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