Quotes of: Addiction Keyword

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

Bill McKibben

Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.

Valeria Mazza

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

Will Self

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.

The Curse of Chalion

But nowhere in the file had anyone said, “Oh, and by the way, he runs like a gazelle with an espresso addiction.” At least not in the parts I’d skimmed.

Firebug

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The Gargoyle

More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

Bad Blood

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Orson Welles

As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

Alexander Hamilton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The House of Mirth

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

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.

Rachel's Holiday

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

Simultan: Erzählungen

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

Narcopolis

I'm a dog lover and sex addict. Those two things are unrelated.


Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

The Lotus Eaters

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

Sleeper's Run

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Paris in Love

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Without Tess

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Henry Rollins

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Keith Miller