Drug Quotes - Page 6

I'm not addicted to drugs, I'm addicted to glamour.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.

When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

You do not need drugs and alcohol to change who you are - You are perfect just the way you are.

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.