Antonin Artaud Quotes

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.

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

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

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.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

It's very addictive having a hit.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

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'm an addict for underwear.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Opium soothes; alcohol maddens.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

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

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

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.

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