Deepak Chopra Quotes

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

It's very addictive having a hit.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.