38 Quotes About Addicts

The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

What our culture lacks are honest messages about what it really means to be a healthy human being. Or how you make humans grow.

Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didn’t know the difference between the two, but this was more conveniently located, and anyway love wasn’t his addiction.

It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.

For many emotionally wounded addicts, the idea of grieving is a daunting prospect. To regularly grieve does require courage and a desire to heal - but rest assured; the resulting gains from these efforts are profound.

If addicts are to overcome the stigma of addiction, professionals and nonprofessionals must educate the public.

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

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.