#addiction

And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up empties, gives back the drinker's own face. Who knows what it looks like; who cares whether or not it was young once, or ever lovely, who gives a shit about some drunk rising to stagger toward the bathroom, some man or woman or even lost angel who recklessly threw it all over—heaven, the ether, the celestial works—and said, Fuck it, I want to be human? ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#loss #love

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up. ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#loss #love #love

We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive. ↗

— Robert Pobi

#destruction #life #love #love

How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing....except the gentleness of His touch. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#darkness #deception #faith #hope #life

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#apparatus #belief #effect #elicit #maintain

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. ↗

— John Mayer

#addiction #displacing #except #had #his

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#act #acting #addiction #attention #being

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. ↗

— Keith Miller

#attempts #because #best #calm #christian