Addiction Quotes

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken" "I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs" "I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim" "We hustle out of a sense of hopelessness, sort of a desperation. Through that desperation, we become addicted. But we feel we have nothing to lose, so we offer you, well, we offer our lives. What do you bring to the table?" "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." "The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary" "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism." "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" "Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem" "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease" "Even as a junkie I stayed true to my code – and this certainly wouldn’t have been a problem: I’d have taken a baby held it aloft and said ‘This baby has been sent to earth to destroy all babies’ and let it go back to its mother " "In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe" "Tobacco is my favorite vegetable" "The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction." "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." "I'd hate to be an alcoholic, because alcoholics want to be able to drink as much as they want and not have it affect their life. I just don't see how you could drink while working at the post office" "Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution." "If we could end the need for drugs, we can become passionate again about pro-social goals. " "Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that rush, that does of death."