Addictive Quotes
171 quotes by 154 authors
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He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together,…
— Steig Larsson
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Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isn’t just a fantasy makes me want to find it again. But what…
— Susane Colasanti
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I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
— Tana French
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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
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Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
— Dan Brown
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Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.
— John Bradshaw
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Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend…
— Richard Rohr
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Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid…
— Brené Brown
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Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?
— Guillaume Musso
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.. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson…
— Darynda Jones
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Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.
— Jackie Morse Kessler
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Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and…
— Maureen Johnson
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The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
— Pete Wentz
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For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is…
— Peter McWilliams
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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
— Thomas Boswell
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of…
— C. K. Williams
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I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way…
— Janine di Giovanni
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all…
— Aaron Koblin
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I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.
— Johnny Vegas
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The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting…
— Diane Setterfield
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