Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction Votes: 4
Aldous HuxleyNo one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. Votes: 4
Patrick J. KennedyEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Votes: 4
Carl JungThe effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. Votes: 4
Christopher LaschAddiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. Votes: 3
Patrick CarnesThe model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. Votes: 3
Christopher LaschAddiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease. Votes: 3
River PhoenixAddiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else. Votes: 3
Laura HuxleyAddiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. Votes: 3
Russell BrandWe must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. Votes: 3
Blaise PascalThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Votes: 3
Dale CarnegieDon't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Votes: 3
Robert Louis StevensonAddiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday. Votes: 3
Nikki SixxFear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. Votes: 3
Deepak ChopraThat's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end. Votes: 3
Eric AveryAddiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. Votes: 3
William S. BurroughsAddiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success. Votes: 3
Ricardo DeroseAddiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. Votes: 3
Paul PearsallDon't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Votes: 3
Richard L. EvansIt is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. Votes: 3
Steven KasselsYou can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Votes: 3
Malcolm XAddiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that. Votes: 3
Angel GrantIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Votes: 3
MoliereAll sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. Votes: 1
W. H. AudenJust cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town Votes: 1
George CarlinWe have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. Votes: 1
Ron KindYou do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit Votes: 1
David RyanFeel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronIt's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about. Votes: 0
Keith RichardsWorkaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. Votes: 0
Julia CameronNow there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. Votes: 0
Irvine WelshLiberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. Votes: 0
David ShiFor many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction... Votes: 0
Peter McWilliamsI think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous. Votes: 0
Larry DavidThe welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics. Votes: 0
James CookMastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaThe socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction Votes: 0
John Warren KindtThe fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezMethod involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. Votes: 0
Robert PinskyBreaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. Votes: 0
Colman McCarthyImperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one. Votes: 0
Sandy SwensonAvant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. Votes: 0
Harold RosenbergRunning is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run. Votes: 0
Jeff CorwinThe Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. Votes: 0
Julie BishopAnd you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction. Votes: 0
Mahmoud DarwishI was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy. Votes: 0
John McCainDrug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, Votes: 0
Pope FrancisThere is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction. Votes: 0
Mike LoveI like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsOur biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaIt's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction Votes: 0
John KehoeMany addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ... Votes: 0
M. Scott PeckI'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys. Votes: 0
Rufus WainwrightIt was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind? Votes: 0
Rachel VincentThe addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem. Votes: 0
Roy NelsonExercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it. Votes: 0
Elsa PatakyHuman entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends. Votes: 0
Georges BatailleSometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. Votes: 0
Shane KoyczanNot everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonChecking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction. Votes: 0
Susannah GrantLove's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back. Votes: 0
Elton JohnThere's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeLove is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish Votes: 0
Seema GuptaEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Votes: 0
C.G. JungTennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. Votes: 0
Russell LynesShe goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. Votes: 0
Ellen BurstynI think it's the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it's cool. Votes: 0
Mariel HemingwayEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism Votes: 0
Carl Gustav JungNo behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love. Votes: 0
Sarah Ban BreathnachIn the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. Votes: 0
Dennis MillerI have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. Votes: 0
Fisher StevensThere's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction. Votes: 0
Sandra CisnerosWhat I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested. Votes: 0
Rodney KingThe inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. Votes: 0
Nora VolkowHope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. Itâs an addiction to break. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukI just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science. Votes: 0
Charlie SheenMaking my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival. Votes: 0
Sarah SilvermanStand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. Votes: 0
John OliverWhether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction. Votes: 0
William S. BurroughsOnce you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level. Votes: 0
Gina CaranoHigher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict. Votes: 3 Tom Scholz
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. Votes: 4 Georgia O'Keeffe
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. Votes: 1 Ellen Burstyn
We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment. Votes: 3 Stephen J. Pasierb
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction Votes: 3 John Warren Kindt
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully. Votes: 1 Will Self
My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate, and she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. Get me away from those Hersheys bars. I'm addicted to them. It's really annoying. So I put her in a car and I drove her downtown. And I pointed out a crack addict. And I said, Do you see that, honey?... Why can't you be that skinny? Votes: 3 Anthony Jeselnik
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick. Votes: 1 Jeff Dunham
Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change. Recover to Live may alter the way broader society looks at the disease of addiction and those who are suffering from it. Votes: 3 Drew Pinsky
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, Votes: 3 Pope Francis
I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another. Votes: 1 Kevin Nealon
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. Votes: 2 William S. Burroughs
I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests. Votes: 4 Brad Paisley
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future. Votes: 1 Sherwood Boehlert