Best 83 quotes in «addict quotes» category

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

I was a functional addict.

I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

stick at it like a benni addict

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

Addiction denied is recovery delayed.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: "The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it." So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new. Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins.... As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

Black-and-white thinking is the addict's mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean: "Just don't drink," they say in AA. How's that going to work for an addicted eater? Food addicts have to take the tiger out of the cage three times a day. I've read that some drinkers have tried "controlled drinking," and it hasn't been very successful. Eaters don't just have to try it; they must practice it to survive. Having a food plan is an attempt to address that, and having clear boundaries is a key to its working. But the comfort of all or nothing is just out of reach. ... I'm saying that food addicts, unlike alcoholics and may others, have both to try for perfection and to accept that perfection is unattainable, and that the only tool left is a wholesome discipline. The problem is, if we had any clue about wholesome discipline, we wouldn't be addicts.

An obsessive is an addict-in-waiting.

Changing a Habit is Never Difficult. Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.

Clinicians should be trained to identify any underlying conditions that may be associated with homelessness.

Homelessness is frequently met with many mental health challenges.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Homelessness is not a choice, but rather a journey that many find themselves in.

His head was bent on one side and he seemed lost in an opium dream, looking lovingly upon the world – men, animals, the carts, carriages, palanquins, all - as they passed by. Or perhaps he was looking upon nothing, for his gaze did not so much as flicker when Firangia came to a stop and greeted him.

Homelessness is stigmatized by society, the media, and the general public.

If you know of someone who is homeless; or by chance you are homeless yourself; you are not alone.

If there is money to be made, those who have no moral backbone will surely take advantage of another.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment.

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

It is not a coincidence that you and your partner are together. You each have something to learn from one another …. The most important thing you can do to support your partner in his [or her] recovery is to show that you are truly supportive and on his [or her] side.

I was trapped. The day would be hell. I would suffer. I felt I might not survive. I needed a dark, quiet room, my videos, my bed, my pills. I hadn't been this far from home in many months. I was frightened.

It's too cold outside For angels to fly An angel will die Covered in white Closed eye And hoping for a better life This time, we'll fade out tonight Straight down the line

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one...

It’s our generation’s crack cocaine. People are addicted. We experience withdrawels. We are so driven by this drugs, getting just one hit elicits truly pecular reactions. I’m talking about Likes. « Rameet Chawla » They’ve inconspicuously emerged as the first digital drug to dominate our culture.

I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn't think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn't help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didn't.

Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!

Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Not all good things are good for us.

May you begin living beyond.