Addiction Quote by Jana Richman

“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

“We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain”

— Belle Aurora

“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is in the…

— Gabor Maté

“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Dragos Bratasanu

“You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an…

— Abraham Verghese

“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

“We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly…

— Michael R. Fletcher

“This addiction keeps you stuck in a pattern of knee-jerk reactions to thoughts and events, rather than allowing you to consciously create what you…

— S.J. Scott

“My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.”

— Andrew Davidson

Doing something for yourself passionately called addiction, but for others called dedication.

— Sunny Gupta

“My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire”

— Seema Gupta