Top 127 Best Addiction Quotes & Sayings 2023

Addiction Quotes

Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

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

Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

One thing I’ve learned is it’s better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse.

Addiction is a disease of the soul, a bizarre form of unintended idolatry where God is replaced by the bottle, the drug, the person, the work, the cash, the religion, food–too much or too little–and sex.

Every addiction is a good thing gone bad–desire gone awry.

At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing–a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.

 Addiction Quotes And Sayings

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Moby

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.

Robin Williams

Addiction- When you can give up something any time, as long as it’s next Tuesday.

Nikki Sixx

Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.

Mark Twain

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

Somerset Maugham

Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Jean Kilbourne

Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.

Tess Callahan

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

Anne Lamott

Addictions … started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn’t seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were … less intelligent than goldfish.

William Gibson

 Addiction Recovery Quotes

“You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again.”

“The worst part about anything, that’s self destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.”

“Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”

“Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.”

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

“Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble there lies your treasure.”

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

 Inspirational Addiction Quotes

“The days you are the most uncomfortable are the days you learn the most about yourself.”

“Be stronger than your strongest excuse.”

“One day at a time.”

“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt myself.”

“It works if you work it.”

“When the past calls let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say.”

“I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.”

“Feelings are much like waves. We can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf.”

“Put your recovery first so that everything else doesn’t have to come last.”

Funny Alcohol and Drug Addiction Quotes

“I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say ‘Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.’” ― Samuel L. Jackson

“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.” ― Russell Brand

“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one…” ― Cathryn Kemp, Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption – My True Story

“I mean, that’s at least in part why I ingested chemical waste – it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more – simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult – I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.” ― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“What was so painful about Amy’s (Amy Winehouse) death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.” ― Russell Brand

“When you’re using drugs, you’re driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won’t quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I’ve seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they’re controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it’s not them.” ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“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 been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.” ― Robin Williams

“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.” ― Robin Williams

“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.” ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook