Morphine Quotes

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

  Derek Jarman

  Death, Pain, Taken

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

  Susan Kay

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

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• When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you’re in love with a person, but you’re in love with a syringe.

  Craig Clevenger

  Love You, Thinking, Two

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.

  Nelson Algren

  Wall, Fall, Dark

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.58, Seven Stories Press

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• My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

  Alex Campbell

  Suicide, Taken, Suicidal

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• Do you feel your best when your strung out on your morphine and meth?

  Alice Cooper

  Alcohol, Drug, Feels

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• A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Air, Would Be, Littles

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Simple, Creative

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

  Nick Hornby

  Scratches, Crosses

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Comforting, Would Be, Injection

  Interview with Sheena McDonald, 1995.

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• When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Drug, Term Limits

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

  Polly Toynbee

  Mother, Doctors, Dying

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

  Derek Jarman

  Dying, Ostracism, Not Afraid

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

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• You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Book, Stones

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.253, Vintage

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• I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

  William S. Burroughs

  People, Three, Months

  "Naked Lunch at 50: An Interview with William S. Burroughs (excerpt)". Jaguar Magazine, 1966.

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• There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

  Jerome Groopman

  Pain, Block, Keys

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.8, Random House

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.

  Nizar Qabbani

  People, Balls, Speech

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• I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
  marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
  I never know sadness, but only a madness
  that burns at the heart and the brain.
  I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
  angelic, demonic, divine.
  Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
  that brims with ambrosial wine.

  Jack Parsons

  Heart, Wine, Sadness

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• Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.

  Jerzy Vetulani

  Law, Medicine, Sick

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