Quotes and Sayings About Addiction
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
-- Aaron Neville -
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
-- Aimee Mann -
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as ***** or crack cocaine...
-- Al Gore -
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
-- Aldous Huxley -
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
-- Alice Miller -
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
-- Allan Bloom -
(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.
-- Amy Smart -
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
-- Anais Nin -
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
-- Anais Nin -
Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.
-- Andre Benjamin -
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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.
-- Angela Davis -
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-- Ann Landers -
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
-- Anna Quindlen -
I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
-- Armistead Maupin -
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
-- Ayn Rand -
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
-- Ayn Rand -
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
-- Barack Obama -
If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction,
-- Barbara Cook -
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
-- Barnaby Keeney -
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
-- Bell Hooks -
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
-- Ben Nicholson
