"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

Addiction, Emotion, Despair, Escape

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"What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret, are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Addiction, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Regret

"The only reason i Fall in love with cigarette.each one take 2 minutes of my life and i love this."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Addiction, Time, Habit, Desire

"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Addiction, Emotion, Despair, Escape

"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Addiction, Power, Desire, Confidence

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

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Addiction, Pain, Coping, Humanity

"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 you."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Addiction, Struggle, Identity, Survival

"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist

Addiction, Control, Destruction, Women

"A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Time, Dependency, Waiting

"Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?"

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Addiction, Irony, Language, Drugs

"I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Addiction, Judgment, Ignorance, Empathy

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"What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret, are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction."

"The only reason i Fall in love with cigarette.each one take 2 minutes of my life and i love this."

"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."

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

"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 you."

"A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait."

"Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?"

"I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to."

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