"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking……" — Gabor Mate
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."
More Addict Quotes
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious… — Michael Badnarik
- I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and… — Anthony Bourdain
- An addict never stops growing. Stupider. — William S. Burroughs
- I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong… — William S. Burroughs
- Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
- I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in… — Kurt Cobain
- One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict. — George Carlin
- Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . .… — Eugene H. Peterson
- Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll
- It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh… — Shirley Chisholm
- If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first… — Jean Cocteau
- I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never… — Kelly Osbourne