784 quotes found
“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”
“He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and ...”
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes,...”
“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
“Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.”
“This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want th...”
“If, by the virtue of charity or the funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts. You will find out that once MAs Department of Social Services has taken a mothers children away for a...”
“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.”
“Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: ...”
“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”
“I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the ...”
“she said, I swear, I put something in my mouth one time, and Im addicted. I think I have oral fixation issues.”
“I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay”
“Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey b...”
“I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.”
“The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.”
“Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.”
“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”
“Memories consumeLike opening the woundI'm picking me apart againYou all assumeI'm safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again.”
