Caffeine Addiction Quotes

When I first started following writers on social media, I imagined a deluge of profound quotes, writing tips and insights into the plight of wordsmiths. There was some of that. Mostly though, my timeline was taken up with their obsession with coffee: 'I want coffee/I'm having coffee/I've had coffee.' Then came photos of their favourite coffee mug/pot/shop/barista. So, if you've enjoyed a recently-published book, give credit to writers: the vampiric aficionados of the coffee cherry. ~ Stewart Stafford

If strangling Tristan would miraculously provide him with a large latte, he'd gladly do it. ~ Ofelia Gränd

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. ~ James Frey

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. ~ Aimee Mann

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much. ~ Izzy Stradlin

Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35) ~ Stevan V. Nikolic

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes ~ Alisa Mullen

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you. ~ Mick Jagger

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this. ~ Michael Botticelli

Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto. ~ Kris Kidd

Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do? ~ Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

Meditation is a powerful practice which can help us to heal our emotional pain. To observe our thoughts and feelings requires willingness and gentleness. We cannot be rigid and harsh on ourselves and hope to feel serene. We have to be willing to go easy on ourselves. The only way to be present and gain the benefits of mindfulness is to love ourselves unconditionally. This is a gradual process. ~ Christopher Dines

Sometimes Love can mean and addiction for hurt. ~ Ira N. Barin

All glory comes from daring to begin ~ Eugene F. Ware

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm ~ Michael Crichton

Social media not only snatches your time, but it also teaches you attention deficiency. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns. ~ Ken Keyes Jr.

I am pain-stricken to say, that today's so-called modern humans are all like the dogs in Pavlov's experiment. Pavlov used a bell to manipulate the mind of his dogs, and today, social media platforms are using people's own beloved smartphones to manipulate them. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem. ~ Jim Ramstad

Books, an addiction for the soul... ~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them. ~ Corey Feldman

Some crave grief like strong drink. ~ Mason Cooley

How are the Indians on cats?"
"I never saw one. Plenty of dogs, though."
"They eat the dogs, don't they?"
"That's the Shoshones," I said. "A dog or coyote is sacred to a Comanche. You would be cursed."
"But they do eat human beings occasionally?"
"That's the Tonkawas," I said.
"Never the Comanches."
"A Comanche who ate a man would be killed by the tribe immediately, because supposedly it becomes an addiction."
"Interesting," he said. He was scratching his chin. "And this Sun Dance they all talk about?"
"That's the Kiowas," I said. "We never did that. ~ Philipp Meyer

One must savor the coffee, to actually have it. ~ Mohith Agadi

Obsession is an addiction you may never shake free of. It just ... holds you and never gives anything in return. But love, you can give all you've got to love and it always gives you back more. That's how you can tell the difference between the two. I know that now.
Robyn Hannaford from The Great Northern Coven ~ Bruce Jenvey

Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine. ~ Erynn Mangum

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with. ~ John Lennon

Results have not been encouraging. We seem up against a dilemma built into Nature, much like the Heisenberg situation. There is nearly complete parallelism between analgesia and addiction. The more pain it takes away, the more we desire it. It appears we can't have one property without the other, any more than a particle physicist can specify position without suffering an uncertainty as to the particle's velocity - ~ Thomas Pynchon

Sometimes, no matter how hard we try for someone and hope that they will get better in time – they never do. Abusive relationships shouldn't have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close. Don't end up getting addicted to such pain or human beings – for that matter. You might not be Thor but they can surely be Loki & hold you prisoner to their trickster nature. ~ Sijdah Hussain

ONCE YOU HAVE AN EXCUSE ABOUT SOMETHING, THE BRAIN BEGINS TO LOOK FOR EVIDENCE FOR IT. RESISTANCE BECOMES YOUR WAY OF THINKING AND YOUR THAT THINKING WILL BECOME YOUR ADDICTION. ~ Dax Bamania

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that. ~ Kelly Osbourne

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. ~ Colman McCarthy

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. ~ Pauline Kael

I said to my friend, "Why do you smoke (cigarettes)?"
He replied, "Because I like to put myself on the line for the welfare and safety of others."
I astonishingly said, "Sorry, I didn't get your point."
He replied, "I want a cigarette-free world. Therefore, I am trying my best to end all the cigarettes from the world. ~ Saad Salman

Addiction is a revolt of the soul. ~ Yehuda Berg

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ... ~ Al Gore

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! ~ Helena Bonham Carter

You are so sweet. This is unbelievable. Some schmo talks to you every two weeks, buys you a meal, during which he talks about himself, dry-humps you, touches your hand once and you think he smells like roses. Maybe he is a white knight on a steed, who will carry you off into the future, so you can live happily ever after and, finally, maybe get it on. ~ H. Raven Rose

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. ~ Chris Hedges

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong. ~ Laini Taylor

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine. ~ Michael Koryta

And when people are unhappy, they can never bring joy to anyone else. They become nothing but tenants in their own lives, with no possibility of moving anywhere bigger or more luxurious. They resign themselves to their three-rooms-and-a-kitchen under the eaves, and then escape into the pages of luxury magazines offering sensational apartments with incredible services that they will never be able to buy. They torment themselves by imagining the life they do not have. ~ Antoine Laurain

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. ~ John Oliver