Addiction Quotes

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...

I would start with four fingers of Jack in a thick mug, with a sweating Budweiser back, and by midni...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with...

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. M...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, fr...

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so...

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the vi...

When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be a...

I can’t imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of th...

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities i...

Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bi...

You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherw...

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Give...

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefa...

A book is open in front of me and this is what it has tosay about the symptoms of morphine withdrawa...

I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn a...

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . ...

[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]:You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave ...

This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They ...

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what ...

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...

And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; l...

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in...

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with som...

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant s...

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain...

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated ...

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. T...

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not posse...

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, h...

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di...

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or wom...

I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment ...

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been n...

The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?The answer is that he usually ...

Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do i...

A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvan...

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Be...

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. An...

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's...

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of th...

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tell...

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I'm borrowed, now I'm numb.

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has it...

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr...

Addiction makes love impossible.

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outs...

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong an...

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquili...

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

The cult of self has become an addiction—feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult en...

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It ...

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol...

Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of ...

In Christ alone there is deliverance from man’s tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits...

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly...

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction o...

Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experie...

The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult ma...

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed ...

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cockta...

Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attemp...

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next mo...

Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but ...

Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of u...

Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its member...

Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of l...

This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more...

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personaliti...

Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to ...

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have...

The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol...

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.