#drugs

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. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#contradictions #cure #drugs #life #problems

Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED ↗

— Jay-Z

#life #life

That night I slept like a baby. When I woke the next morning I knew I was going to smoke heroin again. Everything that day was enjoyable: sitting on the bus, working all day – it all felt good. It was the best day of my life. ↗

— Christine Lewry

#memoir #true-stories #true-stories-drugs #life

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#love

Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#drugs #men

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#respect

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. ↗

— Stephanie Kuehnert

#drugs #sex #teens #teen

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be? ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#iraq-war #poverty #terrorism #united-states #war