Quotes about Addiction

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The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a con — the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibility to be wounded. This fragility is part of our nature and cannot be escaped. The best the brain can do is to shut down conscious awareness of it when pain becomes so vast or unbearable that it threatens our ability to function. The automatic repression of painful emotion is a helpful child's prime defence mechanism and can enable the child to endure trauma otherwise be catastrophic. The unfortunate consequence is a wholesale dulling of emotional awareness.
Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled. — Munia Khan
Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for wha — Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, — Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know — Toni Sorenson
Everything is subjective. — Douglas Hsieh
The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that o — Courtney Maum, Touch
I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore. — Robert Black
We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our li — Liz Hemingway
Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a c — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism & Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When I went to prison and came out, it was like another stripe being added to my shoulder—another notch of respect on my — Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Unfortunately, the escape became the trap. — Marcia Cameron, Broken Child
Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart. — Fran Elizabeth Grubb, Cruel Harvest
If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food. — Liam Hemsworth
I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys wor — Sue Townsend
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. — Clarence Day
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. — Hunter S. Thompson
Romantic love is an addiction. — Helen Fisher
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver