Top 161 Addiction Quotes

Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.

I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane’s Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you’re that age.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They’re the best things in the world – I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

Anybody who’s dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don’t know as well.

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It’s not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted – and it’s a good addiction to have.

The NFL is not a national pastime. It’s a national addiction.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

It’s just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals and targets.

There isn’t enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

I’m talking about some real subjects and issues in my standup. I’m attempting to make a point about technology and how it’s changing our society and our lives, and our addiction to social media, and how it affects marriages and relationships.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you’re in it, you feel like your body needs it.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It’s like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be.

Biden and his partisan hacks have no plan to tackle America’s spending addiction and get our fiscal house in order.

Recovery Friendly Workplaces are an opportunity for New Hampshire to help change the culture around addiction by engaging employers in being a proactive part of the conversation by providing tools, resources, and opening up access to treatment.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It’s biological.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum – but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

I love making people laugh. It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I’ve got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it’s done working for me.

Winning is like an addiction, but I’m also afraid of losing.

I’ve triumphed over addiction.

So often we have this image of what drug addiction looks like, and it’s not fun. Our loved ones who go down that path are in pain.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I’m just very, very passionate about that.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they’re not gonna, and there’s nothing anyone can do. There’s nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.

With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America’s poor; America’s minorities; and often, unfortunately, America’s vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He’s such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane’s Addiction.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction… The music is what saved me. That’s the only thing I can trust.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction – but, you know, the healthy kind.

I have this rubber band that I have all the time on my wrist, and sometimes when I get nervous or anxious, I’ll do this twiddle thing with my finger and I’ll snap the rubber band. A lot of people use rubber bands to cope with things like anxiety and depression and addiction.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

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.

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I’m surprised there’s not Golf Anonymous.

Addiction is a crazy disease. It’s a progressive disease when it’s not dealt with; it don’t care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

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.

I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it’s an addiction to winning.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

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.

We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it’s like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

There’s a certain addiction to sweat, for sure. I’m not the same person without it. If I don’t get my hour of exercise in every day, then I’m not the person that I want to be.

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the ‘you only live once’ mentality doesn’t really work because you can only do that for so often before you’re self-destructive.

I’m the ultimate beauty junkie – that inspiration, obsession, and addiction is one of the main reasons I founded Pat McGrath Labs in 2015. So, when fellow beauty junkies spot me, there’s nothing I enjoy more than discovering what they’re addicted to. It’s so inspiring!