I’m remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.

There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a...

There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange.

Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn’t the culprit, my fears were.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible...

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Krissa, tough Lady Krissa, who had stood by impassively while Areau vomited out ten years of bitter addiction, wiped her eyes and offered Areau Mrs. Wrinkle’s pie in comfort, and it suddenly occurred to Areau...

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places...

That’s it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane’s Addiction experiment is at an end.

If those underlying conditions aren’t treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we’ll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That’s the primary reason there...

Nicotine withdrawal was very much like trying to s*** a melon. The pressure was remarkable! Seemingly an impossible task. I would break out into sweats, cough, curse, yell, and wake up periodically throughout the night...

I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout’s honor, pinky promise.I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I’m having, and of course, it is failing to a...

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn’t have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was...

cure” partner abuse.

A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn’t work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don’t have the social or vocational skills to help them...

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

Well, I totally understand why people take huge drugs. Like heroin, or cocaine. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own head, because being in your own head is...

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

It’s probably weird to think about an addiction like it’s a sentient being, but that’s how it feels. Like it’s something living inside you. Something you can’t get rid of because killing it means killing...

People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating “alcoholism” as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to...

Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

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...

My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so...

It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like...

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.

We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental...

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

If someone’s going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven’t read before. A lot of these books are published because the...

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

There is no such thing as ‘just one last cigarette’ – except the last cigarette that you’ve already had.

Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn’t take advantage of it if you were...

…when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing — not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless...

Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I...

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other...

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction;...

At times it may seem worse – harder, at least – to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face...

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will...

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Reading is an addiction that I adore.

Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown of the entire natural world. There is no other appropriate response to a...