Drug Quotes - Page 12

• It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

  Simone Elkeles

  Home, Problem, Forget

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

  Simone Elkeles

  Numb, Music Is, Perfect Chemistry

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

  Richard Wright

  Reading, Dope, Mood

  Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

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• Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

  Voltaire

  Health, Doctors, Body

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• College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Drinking, College

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• He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eclipse Of The Sun, Air, Too Late

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Medicine, Disease

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Morality, Behavior, Harm

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

  Lily Tomlin

  Exercise, People, Alcohol

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• He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fighting, Thinking, Clouds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Finals, Generations

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• But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, What If, Months

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

  Kathy Reichs

  Doe, Want, Monkeys

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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• It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

  John Green

  Dedication, Abuse, Jewelry

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.

  James Frey

  Laughing, And Love

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• Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Generations, Ugly

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away.

  Melvin Burgess

  Pain, Doors, Space

  "Junk". Book by Melvin Burgess, 1996.

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• When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

  Louis L'Amour

  Encouragement, Thinking, Typewriters

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.166, Bantam

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Alcohol, Saint

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

  Anais Nin

  Addiction, Vices, Diaries

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• A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Cities, Feet

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Kids, Fire, Light

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