Addiction Quote by Charles Baxter Download Open image ““The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.”” — Charles Baxter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Loss of innocence
“The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.” — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“replicates the feeling provided by an illegal drug that addicts will kill to possess.” — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
“My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.” — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.” — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Addictions of any nature or degree are temporary emotional and/or mental escapes we create to prevent us from dealing with a certain reality.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.” — Diane Medved Copy Share Image
“Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret; are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.” — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“Another powerful dynamic perpetuates addiction despite the abundance of disastrous consequences: the addict sees no other possible existence for himself. His outlook on the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Men have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
