Physical Dependence Quotes

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

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.

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Yes, you can get addicted to exercise.

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

I have a sugar addiction - when I don't eat sugar, my body literally shakes. It's not something I'm proud of.