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Addiction Quotes

Honest lines on struggle, dependency, and the path to recovery.

This set gathers candid reflections on dependency, from comparisons with screen habits to a blunt argument that dependency deserves treatment as a wellness issue, not a character flaw. A few voices describe touring life's recurring cycle of highs, setbacks, and recommitment. If this topic touches close to home, Prayers offers a gentler companion page.

I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

Quotes by Walter Becker

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Quotes by Vikram Patel

Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Family Quotes

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Quotes by Susannah Grant

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Quotes by Susan Cheever

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Quotes by Ron Kind

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Quotes by Rodney King

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

Healing Quotes

Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

Quotes by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Quotes by Robert Trout

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Quotes by Robert Pinsky

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Quotes by Richard Rohr

Military Quotes

For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

Quotes by Rachel Simmons

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

Quotes by Penelope Cruz

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Quotes by Payne Stewart

MySpace is an addiction.

Paulo Coelho

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Quotes by Patrick J. Kennedy

Mother Quotes

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Quotes by Nikki Sixx

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these Addiction quotes take?
They treat addiction candidly, framing it as a health matter rather than a personal failing, while also touching on the repeating cycles some public figures describe in their own lives.
Why do people look up addiction quotes?
Many readers are searching for words that validate their own experience or a loved one's, or for a gentle way to talk about a difficult subject.
Do any quotes compare addiction to everyday habits?
Yes, one line draws a parallel between screen-based entertainment and the reinforcement loops seen in substance dependency.
Is this collection only about substance use?
No, it also includes a broader sense of the word, such as describing constant career pressure as its own kind of compulsive pull.
Where can I find a gentler, faith-based companion page?
The Prayers page offers a softer, hope-focused counterpart to this collection.

Several lines reframe pressure and stress itself as a kind of habitual pull, widening the idea of addiction beyond substances alone. For support-adjacent themes, browse Family or Healing.