Quotes About Drug Dependence

#1. Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it!
Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

Bill Maher

#2. I know a lot of people who read 'Sweet Tooth' are the kind of people who don't read a lot of other comics. Whatever it was, I'm just glad it happened.

Jeff Lemire

#3. To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

Tom Robbins

#4. There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

Plamen Chetelyazov

#6. To die fulfilled is to have discovered self and purpose and to achieve all that comes in these two packages

Morolayo Anne Owoputi

#7. I wondered if I was like a drug addict going through withdrawal. I had all the symptoms, my physical dependence on Lila showing its ugly self.
My depression and anxiety spiked, and I craved her more than I ever had before. I needed her.

K.I. Lynn

#8. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.

Hubert Selby Jr.