Addictions Quotes

“Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain.”
― Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”
― Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“I'll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily.”
― Krista Ritchie

“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You

“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
― Christopher Hawke

“Read much, but not many books.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse.”
― M.W. Moore

“ADDICTS ARE NICE PEOPLE. THEY CAN NEVER SAY NO, EVEN TO THEMSELVES.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Your addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding them.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“You did not lose if you lost things that made you lose yourself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“In the beginning, the taste of power is sweet, savored on the tongue, like fine wine. It whispers promises in your ear and pretends to be your friend. It is easy to become addicted to this feeling.”
― Rahma Krambo, Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria

“Your addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding it.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Technology should Be Your Servant, Not Your Master”
― Ludovic Tendron, The Master Key

“The secret, my friend? Everything is an addiction. Just some addictions get called hobbies.”
― Nuclear Circus, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.”
― Alix

“You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“A little money can buy happiness; a lot can buy addiction.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“DRUGS
Seeking for a state of forgetfulness
Absence from the REALITY
Trying to Embrace the SHAME
Though it helps for the MOMENT;
Twisting our MIND
Dragging us down in the END
Those Clueless Conversation
Hoplesss Promises
Wake up !”
― Lungh Gangmei

“Stay away from addictions in life or addictions will take you away from life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Life is not about how perfect one is, sometimes, making mistakes is the greatest pleasure there is.”
― Adela Denisse Drogeanu, Before Love, after Addictions

“A surface desire is one that conflicts with our Knowing. We must ask our surface desires: What is the desire beneath this desire? Is it rest? Is it peace?

Our deep desires are wise, true, beautiful, and things we can grant ourselves without abandoning our Knowing. Following our deep desire always returns us to integrity.

If your desire feels wrong to you: Go deeper.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“The world of the Demiurge is the world as it seems to people obsessed with material possessions, attracted by the desire to control the realm of the Goddess Sophia, people who prefer the artificial to the authentic, people in the clutches of delusional poisonous drugs, people with addictions to other people and alcohol, as well as food, spending, pornography, gambling, angry people who are fixated with politics and financial issues; people who are full of illusory worries about possible future events rather than living in the authentic present now, people who see the world through the eyes of the media and people who are completely isolated from themselves emotionally. These people never 'see' and never 'hear' the real world around and within them. They live in the false duplicate reality of the Earth manufactured by Yaldbaoth.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“There is nothing quite as painful, or hopeless as losing a loved one to an addiction that you are not familiar with, it is like fighting for your loved one’s life with a stranger in a mask, and no resolution in sight.”
― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel

“Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to your own self-care.”
― Candace Plattor

“The past few generations were alcoholics 
The few present ones are drugs addicts

I wonder what the future generations will be
Because it seems like humans cannot refrain from dependency ”
― Ricardo Derose

“At home, live a life which makes you forget where you kept your phone.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty”
― Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You

“Being in a toxic relationship is a drug, and it needs to be treated like any other drug.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“A man who lies about his tobacco addiction is not only deceiving others, but also himself. For in the depths of his denial, he neglects to confront the grip of nicotine on his life, and the harmful consequences that come with it. Truth and honesty are the first steps towards freedom from the chains of addiction.”
― Shaila Touchton