Addiction is a complicated disease. While society tends to think of addiction in terms of substance abuse, addiction comes in many forms. Today, many individuals around the world are addiction to fame, social media, pornography, and gaming.
All of these addictions can overtake one’s life leaving a trail of despair and failures. But every day is a new day! Although an addiction may consume someone’s life, we should not pass judgment on their life choices.
No one chooses to have an addiction. Often times, addiction is the result of underlying issues, like self-esteem and past unhealed trauma. Every day is a struggle for an addict.
To help everyone understand the difficulties addicts face each day, read these quotes about addicts!
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“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was”
Unknown
“Never underestimate a recovering addict. We fight for our lives every day in ways most people will never understand”
Unknown
“One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time”
Unknown
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
“Recovery is not for people who need it. It’s for people who want it”
Unknown
“We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain”
Unknown
“At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain”
Frank Tallis
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem”
Kurt Cobain
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“What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood”
Alice Miller
“Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap”
Tess Callahan
“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”
Russell Brand
“When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t…”
“Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom”
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered: humbleness and mindful discovery of the others”
“Passion creates, addiction consumes”
“You’ve recognized a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else”
This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there’s still time”
“People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs”
“Imagine trying to live without air.
Now imagine something worse”
“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn’t fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn’t have them”
“I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them”
“A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They make it sound like some amazing discovery…don’t they know I’m far too busy trying to recover me?”
“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive”
“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments…is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is ‘dis-ease.”
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“Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn’t that something? I’m on to cigars now. I’m on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I’m on to that nicotine gum”
“Managing your terror all by yourself gives rise to another set of problems: dissociation, despair, addictions, a chronic sense of panic, and relationships that are marked by alienation, disconnections, and explosions. Patients with these histories rarely make the connection between what has happened to them a long time ago and how they currently feel and behave. Everything just seems unmanageable”
“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later, data unequivocally illustrates that this war has been a massive failure. It has not only failed to reduce violent crime, but arrest rates—throughout its tenure—have continuously ascended even when crime rates have descended”
stories. The idea is that if we cannot excel at excellence, we will excel at depravity. What the addict fears most is being ordinary”
Works Cited
50 Best Drug Addiction Quotes and Sayings of All Time – Master Center for Addiction Medicine
Addiction Quotes (1322 quotes) (goodreads.com)
