Addiction Quotes - I am a work in progress
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was
capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless
excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to
receive it. 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
his island prison by way of drugs and alcohol, only to find himself even more
imprisoned by addiction, seems never to have ceased to be corrosive of his
belief in his lovability. Even after he got clean, even decades after his
late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of
a life for himself, he felt undeserving. And this feeling was intertwined,
ultimately to the point of indistinguishability, with the thought of suicide,
which was the one sure way out of his imprisonment; surer than addiction, surer
than fiction, and surer, finally, than love.”
― Jonathan Franzen
“Imagine trying to live without air.
Now imagine something worse.”
― Amy Reed, Clean
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of
books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of
well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better than
meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster,
but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each
one offering the possibility of a new beginning.”
― Beth Pattillo, Jane Austen Ruined My Life
“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just
wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to
wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was
a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or
a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous
breakdown if I didn't have them.”
― Cherie Currie
“I am a work in progress.”
― Violet Yates, Lost & Found
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need
to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without
obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue.
”
― Jennifer Salaiz
“Drugs don't really fix anything, except for
everything.”
― Ashly Lorenzana
“I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my
experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the
one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the
"journey" if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the
"message" of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far,
and how I've felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of
others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as
when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you
can help and be there to listen. You can't save someone who doesn't want to be
saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care
of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.”
― Ashly Lorenzana
“Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive
their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those
they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates
or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread
leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence
they fear to acknowledge.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of
Egoism
“I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“I am not your victim because you are not a predator
any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.”
― Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey
through Sexual Addiction
“I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said,
"Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.”
― Gabriel Rheaume
“He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once,
about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.
Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in
smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike.
But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the
refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of
information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
“Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it,
the more of it you need just to stay even.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn
Hugo
“I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to
run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their
life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world,
they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.”
― Denis Johnson
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and
reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a
drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you
feel restored.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial
“I hope you see what you've done to me.”
― Matthew Little, Hell in a Basket
“People can become addicted to fame, money, and
attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.”
― Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time: A Philosopher's
Analysis of Morality, God, Evil, and the Holocaust
“The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It
accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be
more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.”
― Esther Dyson
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like
the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point
of destructiveness. It is exacerbated by a culture that understandably exploits
this mechanic as it's a damn good way to sell Mars bars and Toyotas.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
“I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it
into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating
them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
“The need to find out what will happen if I don't
relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and
discomfort in my life.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or
meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as
he can understand Him, he feels Nothing — not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless
blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he
Came In with.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
