People Quote by David Foster Wallace

“That most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning tehy have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. That the cute…

— David Foster Wallace

Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that…

— Deepak Chopra

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

— Susan Cheever

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

— Susan Cheever

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

— David Sheff

An addiction is an obsession. something that takes over your mind and your every thought.

— Delaney Ridnour

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

— Barbara De Angelis

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

— David Sheff

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

— Michael Botticelli

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in…

— Maia Szalavitz

Addictions are those things you've allowed to occupy the centre of your mind. You can't think without them. To overcome them, you have to…

— Terry Mark

Everyone is an addict. Some are to drugs, some to women, some to their past, some to their future.

— Ash Sweeney