Best 1307 quotes in «addiction quotes» category

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

The Drug War is an addiction, really.

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.