Addiction Quotes

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." "I'd hate to be an alcoholic, because alcoholics want to be able to drink as much as they want and not have it affect their life. I just don't see how you could drink while working at the post office" "Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution." "If we could end the need for drugs, we can become passionate again about pro-social goals. " "Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that rush, that does of death." "Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit" "I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success" "I used to say drugs and alcohol were bad. Now, I think they’re necessary to cope with life in America" "Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco." "Not why the addiction but why the pain" "The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates" "It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour" "Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain" "The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love" "Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. Don't work for money."