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Addiction Quotes & Sayings

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No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight. — Kim Edwards

Success can work like an addiction - the more successes we have, the more successes we feel we must accumulate in order to keep feeling valuable. — Scott Sauls

You're my addiction, Caitlin, keeping me sane at the same time as driving me crazy. — Lindsay J. Pryor

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes — Alisa Mullen

What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement? — Shauna Niequist

Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do? — Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse. — Lundy Bancroft

What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right! — David W. Earle

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me. — Sonya Huber

Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. — Robert Breault

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr.

The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline. — Lee Child

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags
it's a universal disease. — River Phoenix

My addiction to you is definitely a catastrophic weakness — Julie Hockley

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else — Christian Louboutin

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. — Billy Graham

Smoking is suicide by instalments. — H.M. Forester

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. — Stella Adler

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. — Santosh Kalwar

She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try. — Travis Luedke

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction ... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust. — Nicole Scherzinger

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home. — H.W. Brands

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless. — Jay Sidhu

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself. — Charles Baxter

I want to stay with you. it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him. — Stephenie Meyer

Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this. - Morelli — Janet Evanovich

That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I? — Sam Hunter

Some crave grief like strong drink. — Mason Cooley

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. — Linda Ronstadt

Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality. — Barbara Oakley

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes. — Joshua Cohen

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction.
But I'm a woman.
Of course I do. — Emma Forrest

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time. — Moshe Kasher

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin

He's been to rehab, which is a travesty; you can tell by his smug face that he's not capable of genuine addiction. — Caroline Kepnes

Anybody can do anything that he imagines. — Henry Ford

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. — Jean Kilbourne

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction. — Rachael Yamagata

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less! — E.A. Bucchianeri

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes. — Chris Prentiss

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit... — Asa Don Brown

Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe. — Birgit Waldschmidt

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence. — B.G. Bowers

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. — James Buchan

With God's help in the grasp of addiction you'll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin. — Ron Baratono

Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life. — Enock Maregesi

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

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. — Edward Teller

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. — Asa Don Brown

First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ... — Omid Mankoo

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time. — Asa Don Brown

Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others. — Karl G. Maeser

An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read! — Maggie Reese

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity. — Andrew Davidson

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop. — Liev Schreiber

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. — Osamu Dazai

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment. — Syesha Mercado

Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one. — Alfred Hayes

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. — Terri Blackstock

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. — Christopher Lasch

Do not let your fire go out. — Ayn Rand

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented. — Henry Rollins

Passion or Addiction? Make a list of your daily — Gary Zukav

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug. — Harlan Coben

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble — Toni Sorenson

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship. — Asa Don Brown

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not. — Gary Zukav

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, ... But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has. — Nora Volkow

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction. — James Mercer

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

Love, like addiction, removes all choices... — Liz Thebart

We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions. — Steven Kassels

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction. — Matthew Perry

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate. — Asa Don Brown

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. — Robin Sharma

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. — Robin McLaurin Williams

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey

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

The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not — Gary Taubes

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm — Michael Crichton

I hope you see what you've done to me. — Matthew Little

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are in recovery if you say you are. — Phil Valentine

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

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Drug War is an addiction, really. — Bill Maher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. — Augustine Of Hippo