Addiction Quotes

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

~ Jo Nesbø

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

~ Andrew Davidson

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

~ Sharon Stone

I once tried to give him a friendly little drugs chat. He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.

~ Sophie Kinsella

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

~ Caroline Knapp

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

~ Marcella Pixley

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

~ Liam Hemsworth

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

~ Sue Townsend

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Romantic love is an addiction.

~ Helen Fisher

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

~ Dennis Weaver