Addiction
Quotes - In all of your living, don't forget to live
“There
is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates
into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that
can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a
soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is
a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of
desires.”
―
Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from
Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“I
think it's better to be comfortable in your skin than to be miserable being who
you are. Sure, the meth is horrible. It ruins people from the inside out. It's
a waiting game --- it's not a matter of if it destroys you, but rather a matter
of when it will. I've made it this far. I'm not sending a message that it's
"cool" to be on drugs and tell everyone about it. I don't sum myself
up as a drug addict and a hooker. That's not what I am. Those are juts things I
do, they don't define me. Jobs and addictions do not make us who we are.”
―
Ashly Lorenzana
“My
daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was
thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and
search for drugs she may have left behind. We have a laugh these days because
Carly says, “So you were lookingfor drugs I might have left behind? I’m a drug
addict, Mother. We don’t leave drugs behind, especially if we’re going into
treatment. We do all the drugs. We don’t save drugs back for later. If I have
drugs, I do them. All of them. If I had my way, we would stop for more drugs on
the way to rehab, and I would do them in the parking lot of the treatment
center.”
―
Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and
Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor
“Just
because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it.
But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting
for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in
your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if
your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands .
. . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series
of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like
you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to
leave the room . . . welcome to the club.”
―
Ethlie Ann Vare
“In
all of your living, don't forget to live.”
―
Ricky Maye
“Oh
and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But
we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I
know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.”
―
Susane Colasanti, When It Happens
“There
have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”
―
Criss Jami, Healology
“Just
because something is familiar, doesn't mean it's safe. And just because
something feels safe, doesn't mean it's good for you.”
―
Brittany Burgunder
“Someone
who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues
and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery
to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue.”
―
Sasha Bronner
“Stephanie,
I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." -
Morelli”
―
Janet Evanovich
“Addiction
is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to
be touched by love or pain.”
―
Glennon Doyle Melton
“We
cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis
that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not
incarceration. Decades later, data unequivocally illustrates that this war has
been a massive failure. It has not only failed to reduce violent crime, but
arrest rates—throughout its tenure—have continuously ascended even when crime
rates have descended.”
―
Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice
That Restores
“Someone
put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God.
Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.
Life.
In all its mundane majesty.
And
you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the
shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were
trapped in an attic's darkness.”
―
J.R. Ward, Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection
“Something
they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull
with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll
all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to
mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not
around pain, or in spite of it.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“...introduced
Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd
discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc
kicking and screaming into the cold, cruel world.”
―
Steve Earle
“So
are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks.
"Rubbernecker,"
I answer without hesitation. "You?"
"I'm
a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes
against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking
sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for
you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.”
―
Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
“The
battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless
series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several
times each day.”
―
Matthew D. Lieberman
“Prostitution
isn't illegal to protect women. Prostitutes would be much safer if it was
legal. It's illegal to protect men. Men are addicted to sex. Sex is like heroin
to men. If all women were allowed to charge admission to their pussy, they
would have total control over men and it would cause a giant wealth transfer.
Men would go broke and women would end up with all the money and power.”
―
Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts
and Quotable Quotes
