Top 50+ Addiction Quotes

Addiction isn’t about substance you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. – Susan Cheever

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

Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you it’s the cage you live in. – Johann Hari

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. – Leo Aikman

There’s not a drug on Earth that can make your life meaningful.

No one is immune from addiction, it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. – Patrick J. Kennedy

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. – Gene Tierney

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

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

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

Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you’ve got.

You don’t have to be ready to recover, you need only to be willing.

Addiction Quotes

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you. – Whitney Mays

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. – W. H. Auden

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. – Dennis Weaver

Addiction is the only prision where the locks are on the inside.

The core of addiction doesn’t lie in what you swallow or inject it’s in the pain you feel in your head. – Johann Hari

Addicts never stand still, they are either getting better, or they are getting worse.

Addiction begins with the hope that something out there can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. – Jean Kilbourne

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. – Ivan Illich

Drugs don’t really fix anything, except for everything. – Ashly Lorenzana

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Addiction is a terrible thing. – Jamie Dornan

Addiction Quotes

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. – Thomas Hardy

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. – C. C. DeVille

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

Addiction makes you blind to your reality.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing. – Ozzy Osbourne

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. – Brian Tracy

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

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you’re in it, you feel like your body needs it. – Elsa Pataky

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. – Abraham Lincoln

Drug addiction destroys lives, tears apart families and harms society. 

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. – Christopher Lasch

There is no stronger attachment than addiction. – Joseph Rain

Addiction Quotes

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

Addiction is a family disease. One person may use, but the whole family suffers.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Addiction is a scary disease. Please, don’t be ashamed to ask for help. You can always fight it.

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world. – Christyl Rivers

Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start.

There is hope for the alcoholic, God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction. – Billy Graham

People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.

Addictions is a serious disease, it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can’t give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. – Jody Dean

Addictions are so much easier to prevent than to cure.