119 Drug Quotes to Inspire and Empower Your Journey to Sobriety and Healing

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Famous Drug Quotes

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. — Frank Zappa

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. - Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. — Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. — Salvador Dali

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself. — Marilyn Manson

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches. — Edie Sedgwick

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love — Talib Kweli

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. — Kurt Cobain

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect. — Carl Pfeiffer

Awe is the best drug in the world — Jason Silva

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all. — Voltaire

The best mind-altering drug is the truth. — Lily Tomlin

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. — Alexander Shulgin

More drugs are taken to quiet the mind than to heal the body. — Naval Ravikant

Short Drug Quotes

  • Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice. — Snoop Dogg
  • Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates
  • Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann
  • The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger
  • The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
  • When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore. — Dean Martin
  • First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash. — The Notorious B.I.G.
  • I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. — Rudyard Kipling
  • Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men. — Harry J. Anslinger
  • A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. — Patricia Neal

Drug Image Quotes

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. - Albert Einstein quote

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells. - Richard Pryor quote

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells. — Richard Pryor

Drug quote Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. - Keith Richards quote

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. — Keith Richards

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Robin Williams quote

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. — Robin Williams

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose. - Fernando Torres quote

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose. — Fernando Torres

Drug quote A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling quote

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard Kipling

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. - Tupac Shakur quote

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. — Tupac Shakur

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. - Bill Hicks quote

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. — Bill Hicks

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. - Jay London quote

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. — Jay London

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. - Madonna Ciccone quote

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — Madonna Ciccone

Drug quote I don't do drugs, I am drugs.
I don't do drugs, I am drugs.

Anti Drug Quotes

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson

The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant. — Bill Phillips

Drug quote I don't do drugs, I am drugs !
I don't do drugs, I am drugs !

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes. — Rick Strassman

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent. — Jason Whitlock

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. — Mel Carnahan

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members. — Stephen F. Lynch

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name. — Anjelica Huston

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. — Ted Nugent

US officials have now approved the first anti-obesity drug for dogs. I'm no a veterinarian, but if your dog is over eating, try putting a little less food in the bowl. Do we really need to give him a pill? Is the dog taking your car keys and driving to McDonalds? — Jay Leno

Love Is A Drug Quotes

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. — Mike Mason

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And Love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art. — Ogden Nash

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. — Antonin Artaud

Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else. — Jose Mujica

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. — Fran Lebowitz

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine

I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon. — Christopher Titus

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. — Patricia Arquette

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. — Kaya Scodelario

Be Like A Drug Quotes

Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there. — John Oliver

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do. — Brion James

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit. — Nic Pizzolatto

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve. — Marcia Angell

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. — John Wayne

The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat. — Harriet Lerner

Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like. — Rapsody

LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us. — Terence McKenna

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug. — Oliver Sacks

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young. — Elton John

You Are My Drug Quotes

You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act. — Johnny Depp

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older. — Alex James

No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea. — Darynda Jones

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.' — John McCain

There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut. — George Carlin

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides. — James Dickey

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal. — Michael Caine

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. — Conor Oberst

What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch) — Frank Beddor

Your My Drug Quotes

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! — Ozzy Osbourne

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come. — Marilyn Manson

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin. — Stephenie Meyer

My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys. — Justin Halpern

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination. — Noel Fielding

I tell my kids no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs or alcohol, you're not going to be able to compete. It's going to be a disaster. And you know, it potentially can ruin your life. — Donald Trump

If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants? — Mort Sahl

My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times. — Kirk Windstein

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years. — Joe Walsh

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner. — Margaret Cho

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More Drug Quotes

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life. — CM Punk

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs. — Rick Ross

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike. — Willie Nelson

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life. That stuff never appealed to me and I never understood getting so messed up that you can’t even walk home or remember the previous night. I choose to live my life without it. — CM Punk

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. — Angela Davis

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives. — Kurt Cobain

Rihanna is a pothead and so am I, so we're real cool. Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that. — ASAP Rocky

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. — Deepak Chopra

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. — Bill W.

Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. — Harry J. Anslinger

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money. — Robin Williams

I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle. — The Notorious B.I.G.

I swear, there is no chemical drug out there that can reproduce the feelings you have of achieving your goals. — Greg Plitt

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience. — Dennis McKenna

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. — Timothy Leary

I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body. — Layne Staley

You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother. — Harry J. Anslinger

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt. — Jimmy Buffett

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny — Big L

In Conclusion

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