I couldn’t stop so I quit.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It’s no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones....

I think it’s better to be comfortable in your skin than to be miserable being who you are. Sure, the meth is horrible. It ruins people from the inside out. It’s a waiting game —...

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can’t stop without physical or psychological distress...

This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, “Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like...

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend...

I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all...

Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.

From food addiction to food serenity – freedom tastes great!

Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I’ll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in the...

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

People think we come down too hard on people for using drugs. They do not see the big picture like we do. We see the devastation addiction causes and the ruined lives it leaves behind.

See, I am very dependent… on beauty and peace of the world… on loyalty of friends… on love in families… on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as...

Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the...

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It’s like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine how it felt to go beyond violet but were not ourselves beyond it,...

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...

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid...

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...

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.

Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we...

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

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.

Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He...

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has...

She went weak in the knees and could barely walk as she followed him, trembling with fear. Her hopes for a happy future with Jordan came crashing down. Whoever had told Jordan she was free...

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.

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.

When you push someone’s head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn’t matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It’s just a natural process. If their head is under...

Some, they didn’t make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let...

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it’s better than smoking, that’s what I say. It’s the new, lung-safe cigarette.

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you’d never do. You’ll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly...

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They’re all addictive.

Kujua ukweli juu ya uraibu wa madawa ya kulevya kunaweza kumsaidia mtu kujua madhara ya madawa ya kulevya.

I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY