Addiction Quotes

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

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

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

Do not let your fire go out.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

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.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.