Heroin Quotes

• I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

  Dan Rather

  Addiction, Cracks, News

  "Inside Story: the Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather". www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2004.

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• Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

  Irvine Welsh

  Trainspotting, Needs, Reason

  "Fictional character: Renton". "Trainspotting", 1996.

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• It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.

  Corey Feldman

  Flower, Mystery, Demon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Queens, Real

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• Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.

  Jerry Stahl

  Leaving, Skins, Nerves

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• I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Addiction, Drug

  Source: sojo.net

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• Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

  Joni Mitchell

  Religious, Jesus, Religion

  Song: Banquet, Album: For the Roses, 1972

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• [On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

  Ray Charles

  Addiction, Black, Blind

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• I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hate, Believe, This Generation

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Drug, Understanding

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• Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

  Stephen King

  Children, Play, Childhood

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• Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Two

  "The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

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• Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Age, Pork, Psychiatrist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.

  Matt Skiba

  Falling In Love, Trying, Break

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• I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Routine Work, Creative, May

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.

  Julian Casablancas

  Party, Blow, Terrorist

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• A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.

  Ryan McGinley

  Suicide, Close Friends, Committed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.

  Irwin Stone

  Loss, Dark, Doctors

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Addiction, Needs

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• What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids. What they discovered was they could increase production, increase potency and decrease the price, and sell it for a third of what the Big Pharma could, or street dealers could, for Big Pharma pills. North America, and to a slightly lesser extent Europe, is being flooded with this Mexican heroin as a direct result of the attempt to undercut American pharmaceutical companies.

  Don Winslow

  Mexican, Decision, Dealer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.

  Ace Frehley

  Heart, Beer, Years

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• In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

  Carol Shields

  Morning, Powerful, Fall

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• Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Men, Dying, Messages

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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