Addiction Quotes

860 Addiction quotes by 627 unique authors

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run. — Jeff Corwin
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost… — Johann Hari
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness… — Alice Miller
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to… — Pema Chodron
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until… — Robert Holden
The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates. — Gabor Mate
A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as… — Gabor Mate
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be… — Edward St Aubyn
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends,… — Dale Archer
I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll… — Ashly Lorenzana
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism… — Richard Rohr
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. — Nora Volkow
Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more. — Deepak Chopra
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation… — James Fenton
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have… — Susan L. Taylor
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own… — Joseph Girzone
Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three… — Esther Hicks
...we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil...The best way to break this addiction is through technology — George W. Bush
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self… — Malcolm X
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. — Eckhart Tolle
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity. — Kelsey Grammer
When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted.… — Rajneesh
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take… — Roger Waters

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