Quotes and Sayings about Addiction

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

You are:
My sugar rush
My cocaine bliss
My illegal high
My perfect kiss
You're an addiction that I always fail to resist.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

'That's the problem with drinking', I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

The damage has been done. All that's left to do now is drink until the part of the brain that creates mental pictures is dead.

Alcohol is for people who can afford to lose a few brain-cells.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

That's what I do. I drink and I know things.

Drinking alone is like sh*tting in company.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

It's not the drugs that make a drug addict, it's the need to escape reality.

I take quaaludes ten to fifteen times a day for my "back pain", adderall tostay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again and morphine well... 'cause its awesome.

I don't like the drugs, doc. The drugs like me.

Hold me, I can't breathe
I don't wanna die, I don't wanna OD
Cup full of lean, pure codeine
Ten lines deep, now I can't see

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.

Drugs may kill you, but they'll never break your heart.

The soft fluffy feeling you get from narcotics which allows you to somehow live through the horror and feel like you're floating. But that's only because you haven't hit rock-bottom just yet.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

There's nothing sweeter than that which is forbidden.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

I found that any game can be made interesting if you put some money on it.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

No. Well, yes - experience.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

Keep your head up and be patient.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms, when his hands are empty.

Dear Boys, be the type of guy you want your daughter to be with.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.