Quotes tagged ‘Addiction’

“That woman's been on so many pills for so long, I'm shocked she doesn't just disintegrate in the rain.”

— Vanessa Rojas, Noa, Britne Oldford, imdb.com

“I'm the worst kind of addict. I'm addicted to the rush of life.”

— Sheila Callaghan, Lisa Morales, Robbie Pratt, Nick Gehlfuss, imdb.com

“I'm afraid the problem with Zach is more serious. He's back on the horse, Elaine. Smack. White palace. The Chinaman's nightcap.”

— Spike Feresten, Mark Jaffe, Darin Henry, J. Peterman, John O'Hurley, imdb.com

“I know what you're going through. I too once fell under the spell of opium. It was 1979. I was travelling the Yangtze in search of a Mongolian horsehair vest. I had got to the market after sundown. All of the clothing traders had gone, but a different sort of trader still lurked about. ‘Just a taste…”

— Marjorie Gross, Peter Mehlman, J. Peterman, John O'Hurley, imdb.com

“Remember that night I found you at Dinky Donuts? You were all hopped up on cinnamon swirls! They wouldn't serve you anymore! You wouldn't even have any teeth if it wasn't for me taking you over to Joe's fruit stand and stuff a cantaloupe down your throat! So much for gratitude...yeah, yeah, yeah!”

— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 than people killed in the Vietnam War which roughly killed over 58,000 US soldiers. How much bigger does addiction need to get in order for people to consider it important?”

— Brittney Lindstrom, thoughtcatalog.com

“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

“When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about the process of the comeback, and that becomes an element in the whole cycle of addiction. Once you've beaten yourself down with cocaine and heroin, and you m…”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

“Alcoholic parents are so confusing, they're your parents, so you love them. But they're drunks, so you hate them. But you love them, but you hate them. They have moments when they're still the people you grew up idolizing. They have moments when you can't imagine they were anything but monsters. And…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“Porn is a clear example of how our culture is feeding the disease of addiction. The natural impulse to have sex becomes a compulsion to masturbate. The attraction to connect is culturally translated by pornography into a numb and lonely staring strum at broken digital ghosts. The most physically cre…”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“A pain in the leg means “don’t put pressure on this leg”; a pain in the mind means “change the way you live”.”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“I live in negotiation with a shadow side that has to be respected.”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“I know believe addiction to be a calling. A blessing.”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“You don't have to not drink for twenty years today. You don't have to give up white bread for all eternity, right now. This "one day at a time" cliche when taken plainly is no less profound than any "be in the moment" Eastern wisdom I've since encountered.”

— Russell Brand, amazon.com

“Most relevant to our story, activity in several of these brain regions has been correlated with the craving of cocaine addicts and other drugs. In short, as our brain scanning data show, these discarded lovers are still madly in love with and deeply attached to their rejecting partner. They are in p…”

— Dr. Helen Fisher, nautil.us

“When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.”

— Melissa Broder, amazon.com

“And you became like coffee In the deliciousness And the bitterness And the addiction.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, nizariat.tumblr.com

“She didn’t love him and he didn’t love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”

— Kim Edwards, amazon.com

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com