Drug Quotes - Page 20

• Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Thinking, Mind

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• Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

  James St. James

  Spinning Around, World, Littles

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

  Joss Whedon

  Nice, Mean, Past

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• He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

  Sylvia Day

  Desire, Habit, Kicks

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.280, Penguin

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• Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.

  Sister Souljah

  Army, Men, Games

  Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

  Glenn Beck

  Drinking, Broken Inside, People

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

  Jeet Thayil

  Cities, Bombay, Found

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• . We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

  Jo Nesbo

  Attitude, People, Want

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• Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Scent, Heroin

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• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Real, Eye, Heart

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• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• ...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Girl, Song, Taken

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• Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Strong, Inspiration, Exercise

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• Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Laughter, Pain, Expression

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• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Hurt, Thinking

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• Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

  Irvine Welsh

  Psychics, America, Looks

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.96, Random House

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• The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hypnosis, Behavior Change, Mind

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House

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• If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

  Rod Serling

  Needs, Twilight Zone, Good Writers

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• Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

  Kim Harrison

  Wine, Men, Medicine

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Ever After”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

  Nancy Farmer

  People, Strange, Like Me

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• He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.

  Maya Banks

  Illness, Remedy

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• What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

  Russell Brand

  Simple, Addiction, Support

  "Russell Brand: my life without drugs". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

  Russell Brand

  Lying, People, Drunk

  "Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery". Book by Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader, www.npr.org. August 23, 2016.

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