“Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.”
Others on Addiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2 quotes“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
Carl Jung
1 quote“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
William S. Burroughs
1 quote“A junkie spends half his life waiting.”
Demi Lovato
1 quote“If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?”
Erich Fromm
1 quote“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satis...”
George Bernard Shaw
1 quote“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
Graham Greene
1 quote“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death...”
Lois McMaster Bujold
1 quote“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with a...”
Philip K. Dick
1 quote“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 h...”
Alice Hoffman
1 quote“You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.”
Steven Pressfield
1 quote“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”
Ann Landers
1 quote“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”