Charlie Brooker Quotes

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I am an addictive personality.

I've always had an addictive nature.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

I've got an addictive personality.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.