Psychological Dependence Quotes

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

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.

War is the most powerful narcotic ever invented by humankind. The more you seek it out the more powerful it becomes.

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

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.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?