I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile… — Eminem Copy Share Image
While we wait for the scientific data to prove the harms of vaping, let's protect our middle and high schoolers from a… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
I have a sugar addiction - when I don't eat sugar, my body literally shakes. It's not something I'm proud of. — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“we are all the shunned masses, part of the bands of outcasts of a society that worships self-control and despises addiction as… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“We learned a new way to consume each other, without the need for any drug or conflict. We smothered each other in… — Kenya Wright Copy Share Image
“There is little research being done on the neurological basis of porn addiction. In part this is because it is not seen… — William M. Struthers Copy Share Image
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction.… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
Everybody's addicted to something. Everybody's got to grip onto something even if it's just to feel the response of a pill maybe… — James Meroow Copy Share Image
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated,… — William Cope Moyers Copy Share Image
I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
He became my addiction. I couldn't stop calling and I couldn't stop texting. The more he pushed the more I chased. Maybe… — Ana Landa Copy Share Image
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they… — Sanal Edamaruku Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book, Watching its ways Force me to look At a screen for days "Be still, be still", My heart screams… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way. — Joseph A. Califano, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the effects of addiction are worse in cases where the addict seldom affords the addiction.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
The habit of staring at someone can lead to one of these consequences; iether intense addiction or falling inlove...:| — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm a cappuccino-a-day kind of guy. I wouldn't say I've got a caffeine addiction. One a day keeps the doctor away. Or… — George Russell Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Everyone is an addict. Some are to drugs, some to women, some to their past, some to their future. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction. — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image