I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. Terence.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. W H Auden
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature. Thorstein Veblen
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
That, of course, is the devil’s bargain of addiction: a short-term good feeling in exchange for the steady meltdown of one’s life. Daniel Goldman
Cocaine isn’t habit forming. I should know – I’ve been using it for years. Tallulah Bankhead
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It’s as psychological as malaria. It’s a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them. William S Burroughs
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. Ralph Nader
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. Phillip Adams
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. Martin Amis