Addiction Quotes

You can't let go. You can't detach with love. You can't let them hit bottom. You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable.

~ Mary Crocker Cook

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

~ Leanne Mechelle

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

~ Janet Evanovich

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

~ Chris Prentiss

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

~ Doug Cooper

Her loving hands, soft lips, and perfumed scents were an addiction for which he had no cure.

~ Travis Luedke

He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.

~ P.a. Bitez

Our hearts will be broken a thousand times over, but who is to say that our hearts were ever perfect to begin with? Maybe they can withstand a few cracks. After all, the way that we love is not perfect. We love things to such an incomprehensible depth that these things become worn in. Wouldn’t the most beautiful thing in the world be a heart that has been through all of the wear and tear, as worn in as your favorite sweater that both keeps you warm and grants you a smile in return? That’s the kind of heart that I want. Bruises make for beautiful colors after all.

~ Elizabeth Brooks

The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and then I felt like garbage—the same way I did after the abuse. I desperately needed to feel valued again, which led to more sex. My sex addiction only stopped when I believed that I’m valuable apart from anything I do.

~ Christina Enevoldsen

If it is irrational and hypocritical to hold a minor to the same standard of behaviour control as a mature adult, it is equally unjust to hold a traumatised and neurologically impaired adult to the same standard as one not so afflicted

~ Marin Teicher

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

~ Gary Goldstein

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

~ Criss Jami

People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying scratchism for people who have a chronic itch.

~ Chris Prentiss

When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

~ Chris Prentiss

Mirrors on the ceiling,The pink champagne on iceAnd she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'And in the master's chambers,They gathered for the feastThey stab it with their steely knives,But they just can't kill the beastLast thing I remember, I wasRunning for the doorI had to find the passage backTo the place I was before'Relax,' said the night man,'We are programmed to receive.You can check out any time you like,But you can never leave ...

~ Eagles

It's like an addiction, one I battle every day. It appeared at first drink. I was becoming the very thing I feared---my father's son. I wanted to be as far away from that Threshold as possible. I swore I'd never take another sip, no matter how crazy it made me. No matter how much it called to me. Resisting became easier with time.

~ Sara Ella

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?

~ Socrates

Sin in the world destroys people’s lives through lust, sickness and addiction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sin in the world destroys people’s lives through lust, sickness and addiction

~ Sunday Adelaja

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

~ Larry Smith

You're Superman, thinking Kryptonite makes you invincible. 

~ J.m. Darhower

Apathetic in my adolescence,my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

~ Kris Kidd

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it’s because we are easily bored.

~ Neil Gaiman

Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.

~ Christopher Dines

When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

~ Christopher Dines

Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with a gentle breeze I can’t feel. I lean back in my seat and take my book out of the carrier bag. Turning it over in my hand, it feels warm. It feels how I want to feel; full of knowledge, full of the future.The time I’ve spent staying in bed smoking dope I’ve been hibernating, recuperating and gaining strength. I’m weak socially, but being away from other drug users has made me resilient. It’s allowed my mind and body to heal and mend. As if the winter is over, I’ve come out stronger now. I’m on my own. I have the choice of what to do with my life.I’m going to stay clean. I’m going to be the woman I can be.

~ Christine Lewry

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve resisted the urge. It’s surreal, like I’m watching me from outside my body. My willpower is fragile at the best of times, but my resolve is always weaker in the evening.I feel a dread and a revulsion for what I’m about to do, but there’s a stronger feeling, an unutterable longing. I crack.‘Give us a line,’ I say.

~ Christine Lewry

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

~ Chris Prentiss

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.

~ Rick Remender

Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.

~ Krista Ritchie

No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?

~ Krista Ritchie

I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

~ Krista Ritchie

What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able to say your name without saying mine.

~ Krista Ritchie

I’m remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.

~ Krista Ritchie

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

~ Sherry Marie Gallagher

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

~ Krista Ritchie

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

~ Billie Holiday

Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on their professional crime but on what their professional crime lets them afford. Drug addicts are often burglars, therefore.

~ David Foster Wallace

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

~ Paul David Tripp