Addiction Quote by Ellen Burstyn

“Before there was Cocaine or vodka or sex or any of that, there was fantasy. There was escape. That was my first addiction. I…

— Amy Reed

“Most stories are not about people but about life, an addiction like the rest of them that destroys you even as you love it,…

— Michael Hogan

“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

“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

“Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual…

— Cornel West

“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but…

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

— Dragos Bratasanu

“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but…

— Kevin Williamson

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and…

— Sara Shepard

“The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find…

— Kate Milford