Addiction Quotes

860 Addiction quotes by 627 unique authors

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will,… — Mohsin Hamid
Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do. — Emma Forrest
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do… — Jeanette Winterson
What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to… — Russell Brand
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It… — Russell Brand
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless… — Russell Brand
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. — Ann Landers
I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter. — Eloisa James
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. — Shane Koyczan
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not… — BrenÃ© Brown
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are… — Alice Miller
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it. — Elsa Pataky
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. — Julia Cameron
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion. — Ming-Dao Deng
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable… — Sanal Edamaruku
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the… — Marian Wright Edelman
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. — Josh Billings
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. — Mark Twain
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. — Aldous Huxley
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People,… — William S. Burroughs
All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. — Thomas Szasz
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich
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.

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