Drugs Quotes
I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...
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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates reli...
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Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in ...
Show MoreI think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, gra...
Show Moreto ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they...
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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...
Show MoreI am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. You...
Show MoreWhile looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery perio...
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I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
You young people, you who think you invented fun and drugs, fuck you

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in the...
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It's worse than that.How's that?Schoolkids buy it.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just brin...
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I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.
If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close t...
Show MoreFrom this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What c...
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I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," s...
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The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back...
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I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never ...
Show MoreI had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The...
Show MoreDrug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent c...
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Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what wo...
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Your personal will is the web your disease sits and spins in. The will you call your own ceased to b...
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...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and ...
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Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with despe...
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Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed t...
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I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain...
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I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little fing...
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My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curios...
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After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I d...
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Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading th...
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People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my...
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Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have n...
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I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...
Show MoreIt was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
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In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to m...
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Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make n...
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If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all.
It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as...
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I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had b...
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The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-fi...
Show MoreJournalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig...
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KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of th...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out ...
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What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! Peopl...
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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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...
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About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
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I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that poi...
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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 ...
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But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...
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Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...
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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...
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The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any iden...
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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Graduall...
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The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcot...
Show MoreThe night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know...
Show MoreYour brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and mudd...
Show MoreThe level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You a...
Show MoreMan 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.
People are strange . . .
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...
Show MoreThe basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...
Show MoreThere are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...
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Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a be...
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're pr...
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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...
Show MoreDrugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
Show MoreAnd I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...
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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 ...
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I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Star...
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Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probabl...
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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 MoreCuriously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...
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Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...
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Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...
Show MoreThis plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must b...
Show MoreHe was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone...
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Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...
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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...
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...
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