Addiction Quotes

860 Addiction quotes by 627 unique authors

i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless… — Stephenie Meyer
• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks… — Marya Hornbacher
it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the… — Michel Houellebecq
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some… — William Gibson
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee. — Sarah Dessen
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught… — David Sheff
Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it. — Karen Marie Moning
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction. — Rosemary Clement-Moore
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to… — Chuck Palahniuk
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a… — Jay-Z
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original… — Mark Epstein
That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring… — David Foster Wallace
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) — Sherman Alexie
Success is both an addiction and an enslavement... — Paulo Coelho
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the… — Lady Gaga
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. — Russell Brand
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers… — BrenÃ© Brown
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John Gardner
Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. — Marian Keyes
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad… — Pema Chodron
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break. — Chuck Palahniuk

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