Substance abuse Quote by Anonymous

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

— Hatebreed

“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades our entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people and has…

— Gabor Maté

“Compulsive substance addiction can have disastrous effects because it blocks off the path to genuine emotions and feelings. The drug can supply feelings of…

— Alice Miller

“Like addiction itself, anxiety will always find a target, but exists independently of its targets. Only when we become aware of it does it…

— Gabor Maté

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

— Bertrand Russell

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

— Leigh Steinberg

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we…

— Charles Eisenstein

“You may have used an addictive behavior to deal with irrational thoughts and excessive emotions. We call this the “using strategy” for coping with…

— Rosemary Hardin

“Now I can lean into joy, even when it makes me feel tender and vulnerable. In fact, I expect tender and vulnerable. Joy is…

— Brené Brown

“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the necessary pain…

— Mark Manson

“the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction,” and that “our…

— Amy Cuddy

“The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates. Passion is divine fire: it enlivens and…

— Gabor Maté