Addiction Quotes

• Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Weakness
  • Alcohol
  • Climbing

• Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Mind
  • Dangerous
  • Solutions

• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Confused
  • Intuition
  • Fallen In Love

• A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Experience
  • Addiction

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

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Regret
  • Addiction

• Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

  

  John Walters
  • People
  • American
  • Marijuana

• In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here.

  

  Abraham J. Twerski
  • Source
  • Addiction
  • Cure

• I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.

  

  Mark Boone Junior
  • Mother
  • Addiction

• [A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

  

  R. J. Reynolds
  • Addiction
  • Regulation
  • Nicotine

• I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Addiction
  • Surfing

• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • I Think
  • Relationships
  • Alcohol

• I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Night
  • Political
  • Addiction

• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

  

  Gabor Mate
  • May
  • Brain
  • Hurt

• Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Focus
  • Brain
  • Addiction

• There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

  

  John Fleming
  • Up
  • House
  • Addiction

• Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Single
  • Addiction

• I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

  

  Will Self
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Drug

• Addiction is a terrible thing.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Addiction

• Paradoxically, we often feel like this false self is our natural state, the way we “should be.” This could be our addiction or attachment to being that way. We become so accustomed to being our false self that our Real Self feels guilty, like something is wrong, that we shouldn’t feel real and alive. To consider changing this problem is frightening.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Guilty
  • Should Be
  • Real Self

• Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

  

  Neal Gabler
  • Writing
  • Addiction
  • Profession

• If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

  

  Dan Seals
  • Believe
  • President
  • Businessman

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