Drug Addict Quotes

• I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cute, Baby, Mean

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Guy, Drug

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• I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Drug, Type

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• If God dropped acid, would he see people?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Dropping Acid

  "The Things I Wish They'd Told Me. As I Was Growing Up". Book by David Rankin, p. 97, 2010.

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• Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

  Emile Coue

  Positive, Stress, Overcoming Addiction

  De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Dream, Drug Use, Alcohol

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• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

  Luke Davies

  Recovery, Overcoming Addiction, Alcohol

  "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

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• No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Inspiration, Recovery, Successful

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• The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Travel, Women, Real

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• But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

  Armistead Maupin

  People, Addiction, Drug

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• Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Recovery, Addiction, Alcohol

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• I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

  Mick Miller

  Men, People, Drug

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• I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Funny, Marijuana

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• I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Alcohol, Drug

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• Do not let your fire go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Recovery, Fire, Overcoming Addiction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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