Patrick Carnes quotes

Patrick Carnes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.”
-- Patrick Carnes

#Addiction Quotes #People Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.”
“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.”
“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”
“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
“I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.”

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