Addiction Quotes | Beyond Motive 2/2

top of page

Addiction Quotes

"Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled by junk. The kick of junk is living under junk conditions. You cannot escape from junk sickness anymore than you can escape from junk kick after a shot."

"Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled by junk. The kick of junk is living under junk conditions. You cannot escape from junk sickness anymore than you can escape from junk kick after a shot."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Consequence, Reality, Health

5

"A junkie spends half his life waiting."

"A junkie spends half his life waiting."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Waiting, Despair, Time

5

"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."

"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Substance, Dependence, Truth

5

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

"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

4

"A chatWith the Grim Reapershould be enough to scareaway any thought of relapse.Wish it were that easy,but not even days conversingwith death can disintegratethe claws of addiction."

"A chatWith the Grim Reapershould be enough to scareaway any thought of relapse.Wish it were that easy,but not even days conversingwith death can disintegratethe claws of addiction."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Addiction, Struggle, Recovery, Fear

3

"It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning."

"It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Addiction, Trauma, Reality, Survival

1

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

"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

1

"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."

"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

1

"I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process of quitting I did not have the drive. It gave me a terrible feeling of helplessness to watch myself break every schedule I set up, as though I did not have control over my actions."

"I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process of quitting I did not have the drive. It gave me a terrible feeling of helplessness to watch myself break every schedule I set up, as though I did not have control over my actions."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Control, Observation, Behavior

1

"Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way."

"Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Addiction, Fear, Regret, Anxiety

1

"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."

"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

"I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!"

"I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!"

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Observation, Perception, Environment

"Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life."

"Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Addiction, Transformation, Awareness, Recovery

bottom of page