Addiction Quotes - page 2

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me. View quote
Anne Sexton
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. View quote
Billy Corgan
That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. View quote
Pauline Kael
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. View quote
Brené Brown
You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home. View quote
Peter Cook
If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The disease concept of homosexuality-as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide-conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy-just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction. (Aldous Huxley)
Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction. View quote
Neal Gabler
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. View quote
Os Guinness
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. View quote
Pierre Dukan
Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out. View quote
Ryan Blair
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. View quote
Dave Navarro
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. View quote
Dennis Weaver
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. (Ann Voskamp)
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. View quote
Beth Moore
I have an addiction to caffeine. View quote
Bill Ayers
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. View quote
Christopher Meloni
You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. View quote
Dennis Farina