Addiction Quote by Noah Levine

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

— Dragos Bratasanu

“Addictions are strategies we use to keep the truth from ourselves by blinding us from seeing what’s true about us.”

— Michael John Cusick

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would…

— Brian Lindstrom

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

“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

“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“They say addiction is a way of escaping from yourself…”

— Arun Prabhu- aradhya

“Our core addiction is to struggle. All of the other addictions are an attempt to numb out from the heartache and stress that come…

— Mary O'Malley

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went,…

— J.R. Ward

“It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test…

— Ryan Holiday

“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

— David Sheff