Addiction Quotes And Sayings

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Addiction Quotes And Sayings


“Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most peopleteens or adults – realize.”
– John Walters

“Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture – they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.”
– Judith Wright

“The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.”
– Julie Bishop

“This dark diction has become America’s addiction.”
– Kanye West

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?’”
– Katherine Heigl

“It’s called the mysterious rhythm of life, … I can’t quite account for it. It’s probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.”
– Keith Richards

“It’s an addiction… and addiction is something I should know something about.”
– Keith Richards

“It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.”
– Ken Hensley

“Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don’t they realize that it’s gross? I understand it’s an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.”
– Kirsten Dunst

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.”
– Kurt Cobain

“When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction – but, you know, the healthy kind.”
– Lauryn Hill

“Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. ”
– Layne Staley

“For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.”
– Lee H. Hamilton

“There are addicts who commit crimes, and criminals who use dope, … We have to learn the difference with these sociopaths.”
– Lee Wood

“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Once addiction takes place, the patient has no choice but to continue to use. Physiological and neurological changes take place in the brain. You can actually see the changes that have taken place in the brain.”
– Marc Kleinman

“You’ve recognised a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else.”
– Marian Keyes

“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

Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”
– Martin Amis

“There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“There’s a pattern when tours start – a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There’s a pattern of going to jail. There’s a pattern of passion for music.”
– Nikki Sixx

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.”
– Patrick J. Kennedy

“People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be.”
– Payne Stewart

“I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I’m always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I’m on holiday.”
– Penelope Cruz

“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction… A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three — the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn’t get you, the others are waiting in the wings.”
– Peter McWilliams

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
– Philip K. Dick

“I have a writing addiction.”
– Prince

“Greed is the only addiction that is socially acceptable.”
– Quinn Stilletto

“Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.”
– Ralph Nader

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