Caroline Knapp Quotes

When I am not playing, I suffer.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

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

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.