Addiction
Quotes - Your addiction has a voice
“she
said, “I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and I’m addicted. I think
I have oral fixation issues.”
―
Alannah Lynne, Last Call
“Boundaries
are not walls; they're portals and you decide who comes and goes into your
sacred territory.”
―
Toni Sorenson
“Desire
is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd
is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible – the ultimate in drugs.
What
is the nature of desire? When you desire, what happens? When you desire, you
are creating an illusion in the mind; when you desire, you have already moved
from here. Now you are not here, you are absent from here, because the mind is
creating a dream. This absentness is your drunkenness. Be present!”
―
Osho, The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
“Smartphone
is definitely smarter than us to be able to keep us addicted to it.”
―
Munia Khan
“Your
addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding
them.”
―
Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from
Procrastination
“it's
hard to find people who actually like smoking. Some are hooked; others try
forcefully until they are hooked as well.”
―
Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from
Procrastination
“In
the beginning, the taste of power is sweet, savored on the tongue, like fine
wine. It whispers promises in your ear and pretends to be your friend. It is
easy to become addicted to this feeling.”
―
Rahma Krambo, Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria
“Your
addiction has a voice. A voice that constantly tells you to keep on feeding
it.”
―
Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from
Procrastination
“A
little money can buy happiness; a lot can buy addiction.”
―
Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.
“As
many ways there are to “mess-up” in addiction; there are Just as many ways to
clean-up during recovery.”
―
D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict
“Our
mother thought smartphones were liabilities. So, what you want, she’d say
whenever we begged her for a smartphone or a smart anything, is to have a
device that means you see everything through it, as if everything is at your
fingertips and you can hold it all in the palm of one hand. It would certainly
make you feel very important to yourself. What you’d be preoccupied with would
be so important to you that there would be no point in you looking at anything
else.”
―
Ali Smith, Gliff
“If
the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when
a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
―
Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
“Reading
is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”
―
Jeffrey Michael
“I
leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet
held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would
know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”
―
Tim Cummings, Orphans
“Listen,
we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as
Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules
Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll
write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.
-James
(from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
―
Tim Cummings
“I
learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless
I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the
perfect guys in Twue Wuv.”
―
Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
“He
read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as
was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.”
―
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
“You
don't have to be our worst case, to be a worthy case.”
―
Courtney Summers, The Project
“It
is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter
there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a
nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s all in tiny degrees of placement,
such small area of magic to make such a big difference. For me, Elliot, I must
tell you it is a hard thing to understand- why these things, these millimeters,
are so crucial to you, you of all men.”
―
Judith Krantz, Scruples
“People
addicted with technology.
Technology
has indulged mankind.
Beware
of technology dependency!”
―
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Changing
a Habit is Never Difficult.
Difficult
is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it”
―
Vineet Raj Kapoor
“Seeking
for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters”
―
D.Kadie
“It
will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no
matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.”
―
M.F. Moonzajer
“Addiction
is a battle between love and hate. My therapist was right about that.”
―
Garry Crystal, Red Lights
“Your
addiction is not your identity, but you won't know that until you're in
recovery; that's when the two separate.”
―
Toni Sorenson
“Addiction
is a thief that steals the stuff that really matters: happiness, peace, love,
contentment, opportunity, memories. Relationship and everything of value. You
have the power to reclaim it all.”
―
Toni Sorenson
“Look
up. Your answer is never going to be in the bottom of a glass.”
―
Toni Sorenson
“They
carted me off to a local emergency room, where I sat in a sterile,
curtain-lined room for enough hours to fill up nearly an entire day. I was
waiting, just racking up my medical bills. Over the span of time I was there, I
saw three other women I recognized from the rehab center who had been
transferred as well. I wondered how many more there were. We were like pawns
being moved around, seemingly based on our ability to pay.”
―
Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
“When
you fall don’t get up until you figure out what tripped you.”
―
Toni Sorenson
“Visit
a therapist and AA together, the data suggests, and you are likely to do better
than you would with therapy alone. But visit a therapist for one year and then
try AA, and you won’t do any better than if you had just stayed in therapy.”
―
Lance Dodes, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs
and the Rehab Industry
“Unsurprisingly,
they found that the people who stuck with either treatment—AA or professional
treatment—did significantly better than those who did not. These were the
compliers.”
―
Lance Dodes, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs
and the Rehab Industry
“People
who stayed in AA for fewer than six months had worse outcomes than people who
never entered AA at all. This finding seems to mirror the Brandsma data: AA
attendees seem to get worse before they get better. One theory is that the
finding is nothing but noise—the standard statistical turbulence that can foul
any short-term study. But if the data are real and repeatable, then they
suggest something the Moos researchers perhaps did not consider: that AA might
do more harm than good for the people who choose to attend but do not buy into
the program.”
―
Lance Dodes, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs
and the Rehab Industry
