Drug Quotes - Page 21

• I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

  Jay Asher

  Dad, Thinking, Doctors

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Reading, Pride, Prejudice

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• Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

  Jeet Thayil

  Real, Drama, Addiction

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• We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

  Erich Segal

  Suicide, Doctors, Eight

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Rehabilitation, Music Is

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• I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Mind, Machines

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• And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

  Anne Lamott

  Struggle, Car, Degrees

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Penguin

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• I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I might have an addiction? That was the last time I tried to act like the older sister.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Addiction, Giving

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1009, Dell

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• You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Pain, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.642, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Police, Poverty

  Song: Changes

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• That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Falling In Love, Oxytocin, Insanity

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• Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

  Guillaume Musso

  Loving Someone, Suffering, Causes

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• I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

  Mira Grant

  Cute, Octopus, Spiders

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• Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam

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• I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away.

  Daniel Defoe

  Art, Sight, Self

  'Robinson Crusoe' (1719)

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• 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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