Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don't address social connection.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

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