Drug Quotes - Page 14

• ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Ambition, Soul

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.4

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• No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Ideas, Together, Mouths

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• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  Paul McCartney

  Children, Adults, Animation

  "Analysis: Predictable Golden Globes Honor 'Avatar'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2010.

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• Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Giving, Poppies, Relief

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

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• Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

  Ned Vizzini

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Doctors, Needs

  William S. Burroughs (2012). “Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, People, Addiction

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• I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, Childhood, Blame

  "Scar Tissue". Book by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman, 2004.

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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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• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

  Tim Wise

  Drinking, College, Cities

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• Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Fate, Guy

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

  Barbara Mertz

  Government, Arms, Failing

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• He said he–meaning you–had been addicted to this drug he fed Sunshine. Getting anything that personal out of you is like removing a tooth from a lion without a tranquilizer. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Teeth, Lions

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.745, Macmillan

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• Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Suicide, Gun, Razors

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Boys, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Healing, Victim

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• Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

  Joni Mitchell

  Pain

  Song: A Chair in The Sky

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• Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Brave New World, Hug

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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