“Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'” FeelsDrugWasteFeel GoodWasting Time Author:Moby
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.” FeelsKindLittlesDoneBitsWrittenDrugLittle BitBiggerAlcoholDrugs And Alcohol Author:Craig Finn
“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.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra
“I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.” FeelsTryingHandsWaterHoursSleepColdDrinkDrugLowsRedWineSevenPopsEightSmokeDietsVitaminsSupplementsFiberCoconutsRed WineSodiumVitamin DZinc Author:Andrea Navedo
“I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high.” FeelsCertainSongCultureDrugDancingClubsEcstasyRave Author:Margaret Cho
“So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.” FeelsLooksChildrenParentBrainFiguresDrugAuthorityDeserveAddictionWavePatternsTreatedFeel GoodSmall ChildHypnoticAuthority Figures Author:Bernie Siegel
“Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.” WayFeelsLooksPersonsSometimesWonderImpossibleAirDyingDrugComfortableImpactAddAssumingUncomfortableRelaxConditioningSometimes I WonderAir ConditioningOld Person Author:Chuck Klosterman
“When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.” FeelsShouldSaidFeltSawsDrugEldersSurgeons Author:Snoop Dogg
“There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.” PeopleFeelsStillsImportantUseYoungConsciousnessGenerationsGroupsDrugCapacityIdealsAgreeGrantedThese DaysTouchedCollectivesManifestSixtyOur GenerationEthosDrug UseCollective Consciousness Author:Marianne Williamson
“There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.” FeelsBelieveWellsLongHas BeensProblemSocialTermEconomyGreaterDrugResponseEnvironmentalDisasterLong TermNativeMentalityNative AmericanSay AnythingRecipesPercentagesAlways BelieveParticipatingAmerican EconomyEnvironmental ProblemsQuick Fixes Author:Leonard Peltier
“I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.” FeelsHardAgeAbleYoungSupportProudBattleDrugOvercomingBlessedGratefulAddictionAlcoholRecoverySoberFamily And FriendsYoung AgeStigmaNavigateDrugs And AlcoholAlcohol Addiction Author:Cara Santana
“If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.” IfsFeelsMayJoyLevelsPowerfulBloodEffectsDrugSkinsScientistJoyfulImmuneLoadedHigh LevelBurstingImmune SystemAntidepressants Author:Deepak Chopra
“The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensAbleCertainConsciousnessDrugAreasAvailableGet BackPsychicsExpandingCannabisLsdHallucinogensConsciousness Expanding Author:William S. Burroughs
“External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.” NeedsFeelsMayMeanMomentsUseCausesTroubleDrugSolveAlcoholUncertaintyPushingComfortingCoveringDrug UseOvereating Author:Tara Stiles
“We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.” WantFeelsBelieveMatterReasonPainSpiritualTurnsPracticeAwarenessDivineKeysDrugConnectionsUnionsInwardCocaineSpiritual Practice Author:Angel Grant
“The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. If we can do whatever we can do to create that and to reduce bullying and to reduce the kind of pain and shame so many kids feel for so many reasons, that stuff is going to reduce drug addiction.” IfsWantFeelsKindReasonKidsPainStrongSocialStuffCan DoCommunityDrugShameAddictionConnectedBullyingDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.” PeopleFeelsMindWellsSaidCertainGirlImpossibleDrugDiedDrinkingBotherIdolsClose FriendsSo Sad Author:Janet Jackson
“Every time I meet somebody who's been affected by something I worked on, I feel like, yes, that's what I want to do, whether the Children's Health Insurance Program or making drugs safer for kids or helping more kids get a doctor, whatever it might be.” WantFeelsChildrenHelpingMightKidsDrugProgramDoctorsAffected Author:Hillary Clinton
“Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.” WayFeelsYearsHumansWholeCharacterBodyFeltHuman BeingsFivePlanetsDrugWhole LifeMy WayFive YearsFiftyTrappedOutsidersInfantApesDualityFive Year Olds Author:Andy Serkis
“We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.” GivingFeelsStillsSoulFeelingsPainOrderOpportunityMemoriesDrugAlcoholRageGoing AwayShopping Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.” ThinkingFeelsTryingDifferentUsedLike YouDrugToolsConnectionsPlantMarijuanaBeneficialPsychedelicMushroomsPsychedelic DrugsOrganic LifePeyote Author:Joe Rogan
“I've lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.” KnowsGivingFeelsLongEnoughBodyDrugYour BodyCorporationsIllegalModerationIllegal Drugs Author:Grace Jones
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.” PeopleFeelsRealSometimesHardMomentsGirlRealizingAliveHavensDrugComplicatedPlentyHard TimesHomelessFlavorChipsPotatoesAbsorbingPedalsHomeless PeoplePotato Chips Author:Nick Hornby
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.” WantNeedsFeelsDifferentTearsDrugThroatKickingWithdrawing Author:Keith Ablow
“I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsWellsSometimesTodayAbleEnergyLevelsPeriodsDrugIllnessMoodMental IllnessMedicationHigh LevelVery SadQuicknessToday Life Author:Russell Brand