Addiction Quote by Darren McCarty

“All disease, disorder and addictions stem from the yearning to reunite with one’s soul.”

— Gerard Armond Powell

“Get used to your mortality. It will eventually consume you so why not pick up an addiction.”

— Pamela August Russell

“You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade,…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.”

— Dragos Bratasanu

“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

“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.”

— Steven Kassels

“addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.”

— Lou Gramm

“the more I have been willing to accept, to own, and to embrace my story of addiction and redemption, the more resilient I am…

— Daniel D. Maurer

“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”

— Irene Tomkinson

“But here’s the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple…

— David Sheff

“That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.”

— Beverly Conyers