Actions Quotes Logo

Drugs Quotes

The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-fi...

Show More

Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of th...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out ...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! Peopl...

Show More

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Kill the body and the head will die.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this bo...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...

Show More
Picture of Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that poi...

Show More
Picture of Iain Banks
Iain BanksComplicity

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

However, on one occasion, several years ago, I was idiot enough to take a dose of LSD. (I did it to ...

Show More

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...

Show More

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...

Show More

take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in...

Show More

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any iden...

Show More
Picture of James Frey
James FreyA Million Little Pieces

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Graduall...

Show More

The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcot...

Show More

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know...

Show More

Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and mudd...

Show More

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You a...

Show More

Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...

Show More

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...

Show More

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...

Show More

Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a be...

Show More

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're pr...

Show More

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Picture of Keith Richards
Keith RichardsKeith Richards: In His Own Words

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...

Show More

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...

Show More

And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...

Show More

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ...

Show More

(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my ...

Show More

I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Star...

Show More
Picture of Linda Ronstadt
Linda RonstadtSimple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probabl...

Show More

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go a...

Show More

Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...

Show More
Picture of Michael Pollan
Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...

Show More
Picture of Michael Pollan
Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...

Show More

This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must b...

Show More

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...

Show More
Picture of Nelson Algren
Nelson AlgrenThe Man With the Golden Arm

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...

Show More

Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that h...

Show More
Picture of Peter Hitchens
Peter HitchensThe War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...

Show More

Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that cl...

Show More

This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They ...

Show More

We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the l...

Show More

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...

Show More
Picture of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

A lady that I know just came from Colombia. She laughed because I did not understand. She held out s...

Show More

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

Show More
Picture of Robert Evans
Robert EvansA Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can g...

Show More
Picture of RuPaul
RuPaulLettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...

Show More

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very ...

Show More

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of c...

Show More
Picture of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Picture of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything s...

Show More

There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...

Show More

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-in...

Show More
Picture of Stephen King
Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever...

Show More

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empat...

Show More

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave wit...

Show More

No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

Show More

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...

Show More
Picture of Terence McKenna
Terence McKennaFood of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di...

Show More
Picture of Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium Eater

The Doper's DreamLast night I dreamed I was plugged right inTo a bubblin' hookah so high,When all of...

Show More

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

Show More
Picture of Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure Class

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken ...

Show More

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same ...

Show More

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the...

Show More

We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

V
Victor PelevinThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is ...

Show More

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, banef...

Show More

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...

Show More
Picture of Wendell Berry
Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans ...

Show More

To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...

Show More

When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state ...

Show More

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

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...

Show More

Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkie...

Show More

A junkie spends half his life waiting.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by...

Show More

In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan,...

Show More

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind ...

Show More

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say...

Show More

She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

Show More