Drugs Quotes
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![Edgar Allan Poe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454522972i/4624490._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
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![Keith Richards](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207678737i/45539._UY200_CR51,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards: In His Own Words
― Keith Richards: In His Own Words
![Theodore J. Kaczynski](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683360028i/6054976._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
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![Bill Hicks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219620756i/144990._CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”
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![Wendell Berry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209652700i/8567._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
![Hunter S. Thompson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206560814i/5237._UY200_CR17,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, "How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn't you see the elephant in the living room?" And it's so hard for anyone living in a more normal situation to understand the answer that comes closest to the truth; "I'm sorry, but it was there when I moved in. I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture." There comes an aha-moment for some folks - the lucky ones - when they suddenly recognize the difference.”
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![Bill Hicks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219620756i/144990._CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
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![Gerard Way](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251736551i/1218557._UY200_CR16,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it”
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![Kurt Cobain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437780927i/33041._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.”
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![Frank Zappa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1696236573i/22302._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
― The Real Frank Zappa Book
― The Real Frank Zappa Book
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
![Bill Hicks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219620756i/144990._CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?”
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![Nikki Sixx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209782338i/10758._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
― The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
― The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
![Stephanie Kuehnert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201037888i/999096._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong.”
― Ballads of Suburbia
― Ballads of Suburbia
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. "First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stuff: the arsonists, the schizophrenics, the manic-depressives. You can never quite tell what those will do. And then you've got the junkies. They're completely tragic, because chances are they're just going to go right back on the stuff when they're out of here." "So junkies are at the top of the crazy chain," I said. Sadie shook her head. "Uh-uh," she said. "Suicides are." I looked at her. "Why?" "Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”
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![Beatrice Sparks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1488253428i/69007._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
![Aldous Huxley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
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"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"Stability was practically assured.”
― Brave New World
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
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"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"Stability was practically assured.”
― Brave New World
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
![David Sedaris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1656395801i/2849._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
![Michael Parenti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1279742042i/21234._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Against Empire
― Against Empire
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