Browsing Topic Best Drug Addiction Quotes

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

No matter how far you drive, you are always the same distance from the ditch.

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

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

There is no reason to think today’s levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

Do not let your fire go out.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you’re disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you’re out there killing yourself.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

We all know to feel sympathy for those who’ve suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering – drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it’s clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You’re doing the same thing they are, but you can’t see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It’s a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

I was hell bent on destruction… it was like being possessed by a demon.

In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn’t confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn’t want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I’d just fallen in love with.

Do not let your fire go out … Do not let the Hero in your soul perish … Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

No man or woman is uniformly successful… we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Seven years sober. I’m really grateful. It’s really lovely to be present in my life.

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won’t have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

Mexico’s a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She’s been fighting it for years.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.