Top 15 Addiction Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”

— Gabor Maté

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2. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.”

— Demi Lovato

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3. “But I’ve also learned I am not powerless over some things. I am not powerless over my attitudes. I am not powerless over negativity. I am not powerless over assuming responsibility for my own recovery.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

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

— C.G. Jung

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5. “Not why the addiction, but why the pain.”

— Gabor Maté

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6. “It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.”

— Chester Bennington

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7. “Addiction is when you can’t get enough of what you don’t want any more.”

— Deepak Chopra

8. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

— Robert Downey Jr.

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9. “So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.”

— Johann Hari

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10. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

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11. “Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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12. “I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.”

— David Sheff

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13. “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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14. “It’s simple, not necessarily easy, but the rewards are endless.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

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15. “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.”

— Rob Lowe

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16. “Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.”

— Judith Lewis Herman

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