Addiction
Quotes - An over-indulgence of anything can intoxicate
“When
you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...”
―
Luke Davies, Candy
“If
you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any
other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you
what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the
world plays this game.”
―
Harriet B. Braiker, Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of
Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
“There
are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and
the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If
you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”
―
Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
“Needing
to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an
aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies
turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of
mental pollution.”
―
Susan Sontag, On Photography
“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 sweetheart deal.
And
nothing fuels a good flirtation,
Like
Need and Anger and Desperation...
No,
The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . . ”
―
Aimee Mann
“Shame
was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You
disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
―
John Grisham, The Testament
“One
thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get
hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another
source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the
cold permanently.”
―
A.M. Riley, Immortality is the Suck
“Passion
creates, addiction consumes.”
―
Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“Consumption
can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and
supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the
expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the
right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the
others. (“Buying now, dying later”)”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“What
makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive
escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an
inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now!
("Give me more images")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“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. We're just animals, after all. And
how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep
itself alive?”
―
Amy Reed, Clean
“I
love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean
them the way I do.”
―
Krista Ritchie, Ricochet
“An
over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
―
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“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
“What’s
going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this
door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m
going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And
tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able
to say your name without saying mine.”
―
Krista Ritchie, Addicted for Now
“Amy
[Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is
more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from
praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal
relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that
YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral
tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our
occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction
is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.”
―
Russell Brand
“One
of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to
withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not
selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical
when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a
hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
―
Mike Norton, Just Another War Story
“The
biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.”
The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one
drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking
binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being “those
people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our
kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living
next door.”
―
Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from
"What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
“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
had to find the passage back
To
the place I was before
'Relax,'
said the night man,
'We
are programmed to receive.
You
can check out any time you like,
But
you can never leave ...”
―
The Eagles, Hotel California
“I’m
remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.”
―
Krista Ritchie, Ricochet
“Who
shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee?
You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!”
―
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
“Amy
[Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and
feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”
―
Lady Gaga
“Does
it make sense to boycott ourselves? Does it hold water to boycott the fluid
course of our life? Is it consistent to commit self-sabotage by destroying
wittingly our corporeal and mental structure?
Those
are the questions thousands of people may ask as they are confronted with the
schizophrenic dilemma on the point of smoking, boozing, doping, sexual
transgressing or environmental polluting. Many seem to be aware of their problem.
Many have decided to stop from tomorrow on. But when tomorrow and after
tomorrow come many tend to let slip their vow and their self-sabotage goes on
to rule their life. Their dissonant behavior transforms them into social losers
or hopeless patsies and depresses them into the class of forlorn pariahs. They
realize, as such, that self-handicapping makes no sense, but are not able to
protect themselves from themselves since they haven’t got the muscle to live
down the spell of addiction.
Thousands
of people may feel having set the bar too high and recognize they are are
failing to find the right angle and are missing sufficient insight to steer
their life.
If,
however, they decide to give it a try they should be aware that the road may be
very bumpy and that they have to be prepared for disappointments and
regressions, that they might have to deal with very slowly crescent
improvements, that they shouldn’t take themselves for a ride and that they
could only possibly succeed by focusing painfully on the path to breaking free
from the hornet's nest they have got themselves into.”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“The
addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly
surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and
flighty bee-lining and sophisticated acts of revenge. Smartphones may unstitch
positive points in our lives and incidentally enchant us by instant selfies
but, with some, they might inexorably trigger off shabby and despicable
practices. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“There's
so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell
him nothing.
I
cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.”
―
Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses
“Not
feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your
problems tomorrow”
―
Larry Michael Dredla
“If
we can tame or restrain our addiction to the blinding overabundance of
technical widgets, we can “tool down” our mental frame. It’s, by opening our
mind to the infinite potential of the world around, that we can take time for
the others and learn to listen and interpret their captivating stories.
("Should I shave first?")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
