784 quotes found
“Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?”
“I don't have to live that way anymore”
“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.”
“A book is open in front of me and this is what it has tosay about the symptoms of morphine withdrawal:'... morbid anxiety, a nervous depressed condition,irritability, weakening of the memory, occas...”
“What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've neve...”
“Addiction by any other name is love.”
“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, its just better form.”
“It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.”
“The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.”
“Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.”
“With addiction, a clients fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana the fear of Fear itself.”
“Addiction is not shameful. It is a disease.”
“You know, Michael, Pastor Charles would often tell him, some men get high on drugs and make a mess while they are high; others get drunk and behave like animals while under the influence of alcohol...”
“In our twenty first century social media world, people are so eager to have likes from friend on social media for what they do; their writings, images and videos but they are not so eager to have t...”
“Things you don't need in your life targets you the most.”
“I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.”
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes ...”
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.”
“I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasnt the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that Id never have lasting comfort or...”
“Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.”
