quotations about drugs
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort?.... Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
JOHN LENNON
The Dick Cavett Show, September 24, 1971
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
ANONYMOUS
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL
Prozac Nation
It's such a waste to be wasted in the first place.
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"This Velvet Glove"
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
SALVADOR DALI
attributed, Quote Unquote
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity, who does not know this.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
preface, Lyrical Ballads
Drugs are one of those things everybody has to decide for himself. I've learned lots from drugs, and I think life would be terribly dull without them. I think the whole drug thing ... they've just got it all wrong. It's so wrong that I feel funny addressing it. I don't want anybody to have the idea I'm somehow endorsing drugs. But I think anything that gives you the ability to charge your personality or see things from another perspective is helpful.
JERRY GARCIA
interview, Spin, July 1987
The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.
JOANNA LUMLEY
Absolutely Fabulous