12 Dark And Honest Quotes About Living With Addiction

12 quotes

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

“I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed that it would be so incredibly easy for them to just not take that next drink. Just stop. It’…”

— Marie Sexton, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Fix, fragile, dangerous

“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really k…”

— Williams S. Burroughs, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, sickness, Withdrawal

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”

— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Pain

“The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweeth…”

— Aimee Mann, youtube.com

Tagged: Addiction, Flame, Anger, Desperation, Need

“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast. Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I…”

— Eagles, youtube.com

Tagged: Addiction, Prisoners

“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist.”

— Amy Reed, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, broken, humanity

“He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape h…”

— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Prisoner, Consequences, lost

“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, habits, Conditions

“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”

— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Control

“My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left behind. We have a laugh these days because Carly says, ‘So you were looking for drugs I might have lef…”

— Dina Kucera, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Treatment

“The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make ligh…”

— James Frey, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Obsession, Escape

“I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a…”

— Noah Levine, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Reasons, Discomfort, Escape