26 Quotes That Describe The Horror And Reality That Is An Addiction

“Be kind to drunk people, for every one of them is fighting an enormous battle.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“I knew I wasn't the girl I was talking about in the interviews or speeches. I constantly let myself down and set myself up for failure. this time failure was right around the corner.”

— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com

“At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.”

— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com

“Alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet in your veins. The other kind left you sunken and cratered, drained of all light.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“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 know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”

— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com

“Over-thinkers are the most exhausting alcoholics.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”

— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com

“Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.”

— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com

“We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“During this rough patch in my life, all of my relationships were difficult - with family, friends, especially with boyfriends.”

— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com

“You think you have hit the bottom many times then always find something else to lose, till after a while what once seemed like the bottom is an altitude that you are trying to scrabble back to.”

— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com

“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”

— Russell Brand, theguardian.com

“The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurtin…”

— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.”

— Cornelius Platinga, wiseoldsayings.com

“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

“Alcohol and drug use. Not all abusers use drugs or drink excessive alcohol, but many do. An addiction can lead to erratic and innappropriate behavior. Substance abuse can be a gateway to emotional abuse and an unhealthy relationship.”

— Merely Me, healthcentral.com

“Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!”

— Anonymous, wiseoldsayings.com

“The blackouts were horrible. It was hideous to let those nights slide into a crack in the ground. But even scarier was to take responsibility for the mess I’d made. Even scarier was to remember your own life.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”

— Jean Kilbourne, wiseoldsayings.com

“Addiction- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.”

— Nikki Sixx, wiseoldsayings.com

“Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“The last thing you want when you are using and drinking is to be around people who are going to remind you of who you once were or of what you should or shouldn't be doing.”

— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com

“We all live in the long shadow of the person we could have been.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“In the past, when all my troubles were buried under my addictions, things looked great on the outside but on the inside I was a wreck.”

— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com

“Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com

“As much as I acted like I didn't care about relationships- having sex just for the fun of it- I was still a girl on the inside an I still had feelings. I hated myself for the way I treated people. I hated the person I had become. the guilt for treating people badly badly and acting destructively too…”

— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com