There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not your fucking counselor, I mean I care But don't get pissed off if I can't always just be there I… — Mikelwj Copy Share Image
“Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow” — Larry Michael Dredla Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a women who can't go an hour without using her cell phone, a… — Fitzma Copy Share Image
Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
“Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in… — Justin Donner Copy Share Image
I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Love is an addiction, Love is an emotion, Love is the best and can be the worst. So if you dont have… — Mikel Musial Copy Share Image
“I'd much rather spend all day on the Santa Monica pier playing Asteroids than delve into the murk and analyze myself. And… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict...… — Michael Carter Copy Share Image
“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
“It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
We're vulnerable to repeating history, especially if we don't know what's driving us. For example, it may be a family tradition to… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Although I hate to read publicly, I began to get addicted to speaking publicly. For a grandiose opportunist like myself, AA can… — Jeff Nichols Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Before conducting this research I thought that numbing and taking the edge off was just about addiction, but I don’t believe that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.” — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“And you are not protective of your husband by staying with him if he does not overcome his addiction to blame.” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“There is nothing between us but raw emotion, and it's painful yet has the sweet sting of addiction.” — Penelope Fletcher Copy Share Image
