17 quotes
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."
— Somerset Maugham
"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 himself, he reflected."
— Philip K. Dick
"But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god."
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
— Graham Greene
"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
— George Bernard Shaw
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
— Carl Jung
"A junkie spends half his life waiting."
— William S. Burroughs
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
— William James
"When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers."
— Steven Pressfield
"Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life."
"If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?"
— Demi Lovato
"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."
— Ayn Rand
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
— Ann Landers
"You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful."
— Alice Hoffman
"Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well."
— John Steinbeck