We all know that addiction is a serious problem, but it’s not always easy to see the effects it has on people until we’re faced with them. This compilation of addiction quotes will help you understand the impact addiction has on both the addict and their loved ones. If you’re struggling with addiction or know someone who is, these quotes may offer some insight and hope.

The best addiction quotes

1. When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. — Pema Chodron

2. Success is both an addiction and an enslavement… — Paulo Coelho

3. Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. — Osamu Dazai

4. Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you. — Sōseki Natsume, Light and Darkness

5. Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one. — Sandra Swenson, The Joey Song: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Addiction

6. Addiction makes love impossible. — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

7. Making my family laugh when I was little–it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival. — Sarah Silverman

8. My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. — Robin Williams

9. I might be on the fence about this life, but I ‘m not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you. — Nalini Singh, Rock Addiction

10. Being on the inside could be an addiction — Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel

11. From food addiction to food serenity–freedom tastes great! — Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

12. Love is a Strong Addiction that makes it Impossible to ignore those involved — Samuel Asumadu–Sarkodie

13. Addiction makes love impossible. — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

14. It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all. — M.F. Moonzajer

15. I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile. — Steve Brown

16. It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all. — M.F. Moonzajer

17. I’ve always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. — Nolan Bushnell

18. An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. — Robin Sharma

19. Feel the wounded heart that’s underneath the addiction, self–loathing, or anger. — Pema Chodron

20. Sin in the world destroys people’s lives through lust, sickness and addiction. — Sunday Adelaja

21. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

22. Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego. — Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

23. Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. — Robin Sharma

24. The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen

25. I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. — Orson Welles

26. Myspace is an addiction. — Paulo Coelho

27. Why the addict is counting on the days of taking off addiction … simply because he is waiting to know how long he will resits until back in the loop — Mohamed Saad

28. My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. — Robin Williams

29. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable–even a status symbol–when it made people extroverts rather than introverts — Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts

30. It’s almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun–loving people. — Rush Limbaugh

31. Addiction by any other name is love. — Shannon L. Alder

32. I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction. — Mitch Hedberg

33. Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free? — Sara Humphreys, The Good, the Bad, and the Vampire

34. I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There’s a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. — Walter Becker

35. On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn’t society…it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. — Ray Charles

36. There’s all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar–because it is like an addiction. — Sandra Cisneros

37. When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. — Pema Chodron

38. My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. — Robin Williams

39. I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction. — Mitch Hedberg

40. From food addiction to food serenity–freedom tastes great! — Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

41. Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday. — Taylor Swift

42. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. — Steven Kassels

43. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

44. I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I’m always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I’m on holiday. — Penelope Cruz

45. Love is greater than Addiction — Samuel Asumadu–Sarkodie

46. Addiction and expectation for the attraction = social media — Vaishal sheth

47. Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime. — Sumit Agarwal, The Four Patriots

48. Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production. — Robin S. Sharma

49. Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free? — Sara Humphreys, The Good, the Bad, and the Vampire

50. Success is both an addiction and an enslavement… — Paulo Coelho

Conclusion

No matter how difficult it is to overcome addiction, it is possible to do so with the right help and support. Having the right attitude and determination are key to success. We hope these quotations will provide you with the right motivation and courage to fight against addiction. Remember that you are never alone and that it is possible to break free from the chains of addiction.