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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
— Philip Yancey
When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
— Margaret Atwood
A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.
— Demetri Martin
Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.
— Alexandra Sobetsky
You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.
— Bob Dylan
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
— Gabor Mate
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
— Ralph Fiennes
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
— Tom Robbins
In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
— Ethan Hawke
The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles ...
— William T. Vollmann
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
— Daniel Baldwin
The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new.
— Michael W. Clune
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
— Black Thought
The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
— Julia Hill
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.
— Tatjana Soli
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
— Christopher Isherwood
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
— Rick Reilly
And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.
— Laurie Viera Rigler
All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy: So I understood from the coolness of this morning's passing breeze.
— Wumen Huikai
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
— Tullian Tchividjian
If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Until the day that "the Great Judge proclaims: / 'The last addict's died,'254 " the poem said, "Then - not till then - may you be retired.
— Johann Hari
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
— William Shakespeare
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
As an addict I take everything as a sign from God. It was pouring on about eight million people but I was the only one getting wet.
— Jackson Galaxy
It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
— Asa Don Brown
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
— Milton Friedman
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
— George Carlin
Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.
— Ann Coulter
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
— George Bernard Shaw
The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.
— Robert A. Johnson
Some, they didn't make it.
The temptation just too strong.
How can darkness cloud the mind
To what I know as wrong? — Kimberly Nalen
The temptation just too strong.
How can darkness cloud the mind
To what I know as wrong? — Kimberly Nalen
They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978.
— Dave Barry
If the figure of discipline was the worker-prisoner, the figure of control is the debtor-addict.
— Mark Fisher
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
— Thomas Szasz
Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb. — Anne Sexton
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb. — Anne Sexton
We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.
— Asa Don Brown
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
— Ozzy Osbourne
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
— Asa Don Brown
I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room.
— Jordan L. Hawk
The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
— Walter Wink
No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...
— Asa Don Brown
One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.
— Rebecca McNutt
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
— Elliott Chaze
It takes courage and humility to recognize we are as messed up as the drug addict next door, and many of us never get that honest.
— Judah Smith
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
— Russell Brand
One of the real enemies of an addict is denial.
— Barbara Vance
May you begin living beyond.
— Asa Don Brown
Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals — Phil Volatile
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals — Phil Volatile
Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
— John Mayer
Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.
— Taryn Manning
Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!
— Eric Ludy
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
— Samuel L. Jackson
I'm what they call the love addict!
— Zach Sobiech
In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.
— Chuck Palahniuk
...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.
— Asa Don Brown
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
— Donatella Versace
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
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
— David Crosby
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
— Anthony Bourdain