Best 1307 quotes in «addiction quotes» category

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

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

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 Drug War is an addiction, really.

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

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

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 further I get into recovery, the less I know.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

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

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 public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

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's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

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.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.