Addiction Quotes - Page 24

• You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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  That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Beer, Order

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  One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

  Dan Rather

  Cracks, News, Literature

  "Inside Story: the Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather". www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2004.

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• We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

  Keith Ablow

  War, Sight, Hatred

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• Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Jesus

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• What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Later In Life, Cities, Spheres

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, St. Martin's Press

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• The moth don't care when he sees the flame
  He might get burned, but he's in the game
  And once he's in, he can't go back
  He'll beat his wings till he burns them black
  No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame
  The moth don't care if the flame is real
  'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal
  And nothing fuels a good flirtation
  Like need and anger and desperation
  No, the moth don't care if the flame is real.

  Aimee Mann

  Real, Games, Wings

  "Song: 'The Moth'". 2002.

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• Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Hate

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, September 26, 2000.

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• Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Confidence, Running

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jan 03, 2017

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• His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Doors, Practice, Atmosphere

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.106, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

  David Sheff

  Caring, Alcohol, Drug

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Seductive, Facts, Seduction

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• Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stories, Love Story, Infatuation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You're an addiction...my obsession.

  Sylvia Day

  Obsession

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.252, Penguin

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• The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Motivational, Work, Creativity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.39, Random House

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• Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

  Irvine Welsh

  Vegetarianism, Links, Heroin

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• The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

  Allen Ginsberg

  Suicide, Hero, Murder

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.33, City Lights Books

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

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Want, Release

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 29, 2012

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• 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

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Emma Forrest

  Patterns, Courses

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• Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Fate, Fascination

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.80, Random House

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