Addiction Quotes

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Ellen Burstyn
- She
- Addiction
Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

Vladimir Putin
- Drug
- Worst
- Felt

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

Sherman Alexie
- Way
- Kind
- Pain
I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

Jonathan Anderson
- Work
- Sick
- Addiction
Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Elizabeth Noble
Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

David Sheff
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

William S. Burroughs
- Writing
- Strong
- Style
I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Colin Fletcher
- Walking
- Become
- Madness