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Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?
— Kimberly Nalen, Beautiful Junkie: Poems about Addiction and Recovery
I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it’s worth it.
— Kimberly Nalen, Beautiful Junkie: Poems about Addiction and Recovery
I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn't think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn't help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didn't.
— Henry Rollins, The First Five
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
I am not addicted to coffee, it find it's way every morning.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
— Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp
And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering and death, our culture adheres to its ideas in spite of ample, clear evidence they will lead to suffering and death.
— Michael Carter, Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization
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 others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again.
— Marya Hornbacher, Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power
I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?
— Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before?I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything.
— Meredith Bell, Seven Days Sober: A Guide to Discovering What You Really Think About Your Drinking
If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Getting sober is a radically creative act.
— Meredith Bell, A Sober Year: Daily Musings on an Alcohol-Free Life
Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.
— Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.
— Marya Hornbacher, Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power
I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!
— Pax Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!
— Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction
Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.
— Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic
The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in society in a dark place nobody wants to talk about.
— Justin Donner, i just woke up dead: a memoir
Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown of the entire natural world. There is no other appropriate response to a situation this grave, this utterly overwhelming, than powerlessness. It has taken countless generations to arrive in this predicament; a solution cannot arise overnight. It will take work. It will take time.
— Albert J. LaChance, The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the Work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance
It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
— Super Star
But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to everyone, good or bad, equally. It doesn't matter if the drowning person has strong moral fiber.And it doesn't matter if you're a good or a bad person, once you become addicted to drugs. What happens next is inevitable. It's a natural process that happens in everyone's brain, once the drugs take over. So don't ever fool yourself into thinking that only weak or bad people get addicted.
— Oliver Markus, Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.
— Alexandra Sobetsky
Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.
— Alfred Hayes, In Love
Too many codeine pills,Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals
— Phil Volatile, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says “I am a mistake” instead of saying “I made a mistake.
— David W. Earle
The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.
— Pitigrilli, Cocaine
For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.
— Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Television
maybe its the sting… the jaw grinding… the flow… the rush… that keeps calling me to my destiny… maybe its the life im ment to live. i was chosen to test the deserted path… im not upset that it wont go away„„ im upset i dont want it to. and then i take another dance. one more time…feeling the meaning of being alive. ill let it control me tonight. take me far away. Its been too long since ive been here… ive missed you. and no matter what happens. ill never forget you… ill never forget this. its the feeling ill be chasing the rest of my life
— Abbey Rain
This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
— David W. Earle
A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!
— David W. Earle
Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
— David W. Earle
After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
— Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
— Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
I was just a little buckaroo when they first invited me to Marlboro Country. I loved being a cowboy; and smoking seemed to fit right in with riding, roping and wrangling. But once I got to where the Flavor was, it would take me four decades to find a trail out of Nicotine Canyon. I finally ran out of reasons to smoke...when I ran out of air...
— John Aaron, Romancing the Smoke: Reflections of a Nicotine Addict
These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious, a few modest cocktails at lunch, followed by the obligatory afternoon pick-me-up, which segued neatly right into happy hour and ended with a little one just to help them sleep. For purely medicinal purposes, of course.
— G.M. Ford, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
— Alice  Miller, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.
— Oliver Markus, Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live
— Joseph Meyering Sr
When she walks in that first Monday, of course I am awake - I am always up these days - I decide to lay it down. “Look”, I say, “I snort Ritalin. That’s what I do. I snort it all day long. I crush up the pills and inhale them like cocaine. I’m up to about forty a day. I can’t stop. I am planning to get help, to check into rehab or something like that, as soon as this book is finished. In the meantime, I can’t stop, and I am not going to.” She looks at me impassively. “I don’t care what you think about it. So you have a choice. I can sit here and do it in front of you, or I can keep running into the bathroom so you don’t have to see. Either way, it’s going to happen, so it’s just about how bad it’s going to make you feel to watch.”She doesn’t seem to know what to say. She stares. I think she is going to cry. I think she wants to give me a hug, maybe, but there is an invisible cage, a delicate netting of glass, an ice sculpture surrounding me that no one can walk through. I’m cold. I’ve frozen into someone who just can’t be touched. I dare you to try.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.
— David   Norman, Alcohemy: The Solution to Ending Your Alcohol Habit for Good--Privately, Discreetly, and Fully in Control
You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.Basically, we are stupid.
— Saurabh Sharma
It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart.
— Jack Kerouac, Tristessa
Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else. It’s animal meth.
— Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do another line. Like I said, a cycle.
— Kris Kidd
I smoked my first pipe with Seth. I knew the stuff was bad, but I was so tired of being the cop, begging and ragging at him, throwing Pampers in his face when he walked in the door. I wanted to be on the same side again. So I smoked with Seth one afternoon when the girls were napping, and oh my God, I can only think about this for a minute or every part of me will turn into a mouth wanting more: the sexiness of it, fucking Seth like wild for the first time in months, going on even when the girls started to whimper and bang on the door. Then looking out the window and seeing the world shake itself to life: the heavy trees, the sky. And I was back on top. We were going to make it, Seth and I. The voice in my head was back again, telling me stories, too many to write down or even tell one from another.
— Jennifer Egan, The Keep
There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
— Moshe Kasher, Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
Addicts don't like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are like actresses, who all audition for the same role in a horror movie. It doesn't matter how they got to the audition. It doesn't matter how or where they grew up, once they get to the audition, all the actresses act in the same way and read the same lines. They all become the same character.
— Oliver Markus, Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey
The next day we were all shooting up.	"Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon."	"Yea. What are you trying to prove?"	They had a good laugh at my expense.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
As I was fixing in the bathroom, I thought about how I used to tell my ex Anne that there was “no reality.” Light merely entered the eye and was translated into electrical signals which were translated into chemical signals translated into gestalts and translated into electrical signals again and so on. It was all a dream of a dream of a dream signifying a source which could be reality of which we experienced only distant modulated echoes of ripples.This used to really annoy her because she suspected it had something to do with my failure to get a job.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
— Ellen Hopkins, Crank
Passion creates, addiction consumes.
— Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it
— Brian Cuban, Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Life was radical right after I met the monster.Later, life became harder, complicated.Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway, Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.
— Ellen Hopkins, Glass
It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.
— Rebecca O'Donnell, Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict
...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which result in fear. This fear is expressed by the dominators through control and violence, and in subordinated people through passivity and repression of anger. The external conflict of hierarchy between dominants and subordinates becomes internalized in individuals, creating personal inner chaos, anxiety and duality. To quell the inner conflict people resort to addictive substances and behavior.
— Charlotte Davis Kasl
I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize—it’s a kind of horror—that this is my life.And I can’t stop. I just can’t stop. I can’t stop anymore.
— Luke Davies, Candy
as i discovered, the path to sobriety is a precarious, complex journey. you obviously want to purge yourself of something that has been so destructive and has had such a grip on you. but in the deep recesses of your mind, you wonder if you will mourn the loss of this old friend that has been by your side for years. i know this sounds sick, but you actually find yourself wondering if your life is going to become quite boring without this crutch. of course, the yearning for true health far outweighs everything else. you know things are going to be better for you, for your loved ones, and for everyone you encounter. you will no longer have to hide things and live a lie. yes, that initial high of drugs and booze can be very, very attractive, but it's not worth the wrecked and trashed feeling you have the next morning. nor is it worth the cumulative toll it exacts from you.
— Lou Gramm, Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll
you calls it Possesiveness,i calls it Fear Of Loosing You.
— Ehsaan Nashad
addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.
— Lou Gramm, Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll
[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]:You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can't possibly hurt you, because you know you can pull up whenever you feel like it, but it is merely wish-full thinking. The craving has gripped you and there is no resisting it.You have passed the point of no return.
— P.G. Wodehouse, The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1
Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more o
— Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
Krissa, tough Lady Krissa, who had stood by impassively while Areau vomited out ten years of bitter addiction, wiped her eyes and offered Areau Mrs. Wrinkle’s pie in comfort, and it suddenly occurred to Areau in the strangest, most dreamlike of ways, that his pain was not the only pain on the planet.
— Amy Lane
Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
— Stephen King, The Shining
Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.
— John Cheese
Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
— Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time
As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up?
— David Carr, The Night of the Gun
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
— David Carr, The Night of the Gun
There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.
— H.M. Forester, Game of Aeons
--Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He's jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He's gaun tae fucking Belfast, the stupid cunt. Ah always knew that the fucker wis tapped. Fuckin imperialist lackey. Ken whit the daft cunt turned roond n sais tae us? He goes: Ah cannae fuckin stick civvy street. Bein in the army, it's like being a junky. The only difference is thit ye dinnae git shot at sae often bein a junky. Besides, it's usually you that does the shootin.--That, eh, likesay, seems a bit eh, fucked up like man. Ken?--Naw but, listen the now. You jist think aboot it. In the army they dae everything fir they daft cunts. Feed thum, gie the cunts cheap bevvy in scabby camp clubs tae keep thum fae gaun intae toon n lowerin the fuckin tone, upsetting the locals n that. Whin they git intae civvy street, thuv goat tae dae it aw fir thumsells.--Yeah, but likesay, it's different though, cause . . . Spud tries to cut in, but Renton is in full flight. A bottle in the face is the only thing that could shut him up at this point; even then only for a few seconds.--Uh, uh . . . wait a minute, mate. Hear us oot. Listen tae whit ah've goat tae say here . . . what the fuck wis ah sayin . . . aye! Right. Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboot is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a burd, too much hassle, cannae breathe withoot her gittin oan yir case. Either that, or ye blow it, and feel aw guilty. Ye worry aboot bills, food, bailiffs, these Jambo Nazi scum beatin us, aw the things that ye couldnae gie a fuck aboot whin yuv goat a real junk habit. Yuv just goat one thing tae worry aboot. The simplicity ay it aw. Ken whit ah mean?
— Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t escape.
— Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I'll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in the real but bridgeable gap between what I need and what I can get. Addiction creates a god so that time will stop--why all gods are created. God might be another story.
— Ann Marlowe, How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak and fruity Kool-Aid. That's some other book. Slogans saved my life. All of them--the dumb ones, the preachy ones, the imperatives, the cliches, the injunctives, the gooey, Godly ones, the shameless, witless ones.
— David Carr, The Night of the Gun
Smoking is suicide by instalments.
— H.M. Forester, Game of Aeons
The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.
— G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don’t think the same — their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.
— Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I don’t know what I would have said. Seeing him so far down the line on this trajectory that he had set for himself made me queasy. It seemed to me like once he discovered heroin, he decided he was going to fully embrace it. Based on the songs on Dirt, he just jumped in. There was no turning back. It was unfortunate and pathetic. That was the myth he made for himself, and he was living it out.
— Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.
— Jaako J. Wallenius
John G. turns on him, hands on hips, hair caked with snow. 'Hey, buddy, let me tell you something. Drugs are the only thing I got. I am a drug addict. That's all I've ever been and that's all I'll ever be. Even if I'm not putting a needle in my arm or pipe in my mouth right this second, the thought is still in my mind.' He taps the side of his head. 'And if I decide I'm gonna get high to deal with the pressures in my life, there's not a fuckin' thing you can do about it.
— Peter Blauner, The Intruder
Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame?
— John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
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, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I spit, turn, and wander towards the beach. Heroin gave me wings but took away the sky.
— Drew Gates, The Crooked Beat
She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.
— Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade of a guillotine; more threatening inert than if the blade suddenly slips and mercifully turns out my lights. This is my war to end all wars.
— William Cope Moyers
Don't kid yourself by saying that one time can't make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn't too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won't realize what has happened immediately afterwards. Addiction is a gradual process and it doesn't happen overnight. But trust me when I tell you that one time is all that it takes to set this into motion. It can and it will.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?
— Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Imagine this:Ice is coming to YOUR house.Can you HEAR it knocking?Are you ready?What will YOU do?
— Cornelia Connie D. DeDona
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking and acting a fool, and think to myself, There’s nothing cool about that. I never wanted to be that out of control.
— Kathy Griffin, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY
— David Rat, Happy Ending
I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.
— David Millar, Racing Through the Dark
The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only "normally" deprived of touch, anxiety and an insatiable hunger for posessions replace the missing eros. The child lacking a sense of welcome, joyous belonging, gratuitous security, will learn to hoard the limited supply of affection. According to the law of psychic compensation, not being held leads to holding on, grasping, addiction, posessiveness. Gradually, things replace people as a source of pleasure and security. When the gift of belonging with is denied, the child learns that love means belongin to. To the degree we are arrested at this stage of development, the needy child will dominate our motivations. Other people and things (and there is fundamentally no difference) will be seen as existing solely for the purpose of "my" survival and satisfaction. "Mine" will become the most important word.
— Sam Keen, The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact. But an addiction that was impossible to let go.
— Stacia Kane, Chasing Magic
I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.
— Sara Gran, Dope
It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
— Ellen Hopkins, Identical
I think it's easy to stop smoking
—  it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
. 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, The Gargoyle
I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.
— Sharon Stone, not a book [DVD]
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, Appetites: Why Women Want
I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.
— Marcella Pixley, Without Tess
Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Truth can come to liberate, but not the truth you were taught. Where you always sought refuge.You only met lies since you were born. You were always among the good, although humanity was evil itself. Will that ever make some sense? None and all. Ideally, nothing.
— Robert Neil Fleischer, Alien Biography
Your respect for people does not mean you need themThis is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.
— Waciny Laredj, Histoires minuscules des révolutions arabes
There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affected by the latter! Hold on to the former - the chosen ones in your life and move on.
— Avijeet Das
Some people just walk into our hearts.
— Avijeet Das
Remember people by their souls (through their eyes), not by their names.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!
— Avijeet Das
To get something from nothing means God will do everything and people don’t have to do anything.
— Sunday Adelaja
If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.
— Sunday Adelaja
People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people.
— Sunday Adelaja
When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.
— Sunday Adelaja
The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best.
— Sunday Adelaja
The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor.
— Sunday Adelaja
People should not expect to eat if they did not work.
— Sunday Adelaja
People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.
— Sunday Adelaja
In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority.
— Sunday Adelaja
Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough,people are now more like slaves than human beings.
— Sunday Adelaja
Why do people always say change is the only constant? It so sounds Oxymoron
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
The miracle centered gospel gives people this mentality that they could have their way without being their best.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our miracle centered gospel is what has turned our people into scammers.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracles centered gospel makes our people to be superficial and light.
— Sunday Adelaja
People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly.
— Sunday Adelaja
The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
— J. Raymond
Live in moments that consume your heart and mind, but be distracted by the music from the leaves, birds, wind, rain, sun and people
— Val Uchendu
He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.
— Orson Scott Card, The Swarm
People who say it cannot be done should have an encounter with God. Through God all things are possible.
— Prophetess Dina Rolle
Anything we are preaching to people is what they become
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people
— Sunday Adelaja
some people are worst than this Quote...and that's the reason you're not "liking" it
— Rakesh Vemulawada
The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
— Sunday Adelaja
People don’t believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly.
— Sunday Adelaja
I believe that flowers are like people. Flowers come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Some extremely rare and some very common. They are all beautiful in their own unique way.
— Alex Haditaghi
There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Emotional quotient is far more important than intelligence quotient. We live with people, not with math problems.
— Saru Singhal
Were one to call your stupid ism good, well then, one would either be equally idiotic, or a fool, or no good.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
if a make up, is a fake face, than why dress to impress?
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.
— Lidiya K., This Moment
Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
My own tears caught me by surprise, and I turned away before he could see them. Everyone leaves. If I've learned one thing in life that it was that. They might die. They might betray your trust. They might stay until I've got too hard or inconvenient. But in the end, the people you cared about always leave.
— Suzanne Johnson
Do good or bad people will always have something to say
—  be happy or sad you will always have a reason to pray
People only care about winners,No one care about losers
— Mohammed Sekouty
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
— Oscar Wilde
Stray voltage/current/frequency is the most serious form of exposure. Electrocution kills very few people per year. Stray voltage/current/frequency exposure is suspected to be making people sick in the millions!
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing.
— Sunday Adelaja
It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
The difference make every one Special.
— Jan Jansen
I truly believe that people do the best they can.
— Katharine Hepburn
People are like wet fabrics: You can never know their true color unless you squeeze them dry.
— Elmer Ryan Claudio
Always put yourself around people who want to succeed because when they succeed you will to succeed as well.
— Alcurtis Turner
Trying to figure some people out would be like trying to put an elephant in a blender.
— Adam LiVecchi
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things
— Thabang Gideon Magaola
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. "This is so much better than a net drama.
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
— George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
— Konstantin Stanislavski, Creating a Role
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.
— Wendy Mass
Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.
— Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
— Katherine Mansfield
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
— Dodie Smith
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
— Humphrey Bogart
What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1
— Christopher Marlowe
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
— Tennessee Williams
Let's sing our way out of this
— Isabel Fraire
Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right outside your window is worth more than the most beautiful painting, and the crackers and peanut butter that you’re having for lunch on the coffee table are as profound, in their own way, as the Last Supper. This is it. This is life in all its glory, swirling and unfolding around us, disguised as pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be made, chosen, woven, crafted. Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen. You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural. You are more than dust and bones. You are spirit and power and image of God. And you have been given Today.
— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.
— Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self
Drama is based on the Mistake.
— W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.
— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)
— Mary Sumner
Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it'll be told for a thousand years.“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”That's why people invent fights. That's why we're drawn to sports. That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal.We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
— Derek Sivers
No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok.
— Wendy Mass, Leap Day