Addiction Quotes
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The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
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I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.
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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.
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There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What psychedelics are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
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Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.
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I have a writing addiction.
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Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.
