Top 91 Quotes About Lsd
#1. The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.
George Harrison
#2. Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought
but refused to replace one dogma with another.
Terry Tempest Williams
#3. Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, Turn on, boot up, jack in.
Walter Isaacson
#4. did you ever consider that lsd and color TV arrived for our consumption around the same time? Here comes all this explorative color pounding, and what do we do? we outlaw one and fuck up the other.
Charles Bukowski
#5. Like something Disney might have envisioned if he'd taken a dose of LSD, backed up with a serving of psilocybin mushrooms, and a quart of tequila.
Faith Hunter
#6. LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
Alan Watts
#7. I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
Albert Hofmann
#8. Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.
Dov Davidoff
#9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.
Paul McCartney
#10. Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.
Patti Smith
#11. [LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
John Lennon
#12. [I have] occasional depersonalization disorder, (which makes me feel utterly detached from reality, but in less of a "this LSD is awesome" kind of way and more of a "I wonder what my face is doing right now" and "it sure would be nice to feel emotions again" sort of thing).
Jenny Lawson
#13. We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.
Merle Haggard
#14. I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.
Charles Bukowski
#15. There's something about yoga that makes it a spiritual experience, I'm realizing. It's opening me beyond myself. A good class seems like a dose of LSD--without the worry you'll find yourself jumping off a roof into a swimming pool.
Meryl Davids Landau
#16. Consider this:
1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?
And here's a bonus question:
2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?
Brad Warner
#17. In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
Timothy Leary
#19. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
Albert Hofmann
#20. The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
Ralph Metzner
#21. Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.
Jeff Lindsay
#22. Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?
McLUHAN: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant.
Marshall McLuhan
#23. As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, "Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here."
John C. Lilly
#24. But if they don't try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives, I will wonder whether they had missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.
Sam Harris
#25. Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
Albert Hofmann
#26. We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
Jerry Garcia
#27. LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
Timothy Leary
#28. Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
Robert Kennedy
#29. 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
#30. [In the 1960s] ... you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.
Betsey Johnson
#31. LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness
Allen Ginsberg
#33. What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
Terence McKenna
#34. The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
Charles Bukowski
#35. I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#36. All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
David Crosby
#37. He didn't look like an old hippie. Of course, you never could tell. His own elder brother had once spent a couple of years living in a Druidic commune, eating LSD doughnuts, and thinking he was a tree, since when he had gone on to become a director of a merchant bank.
Douglas Adams
#38. I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.
Jim David
#39. Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,
Albert Hofmann
#40. Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what
Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.
Luke Rhinehart
#41. The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.
Stanislav Grof
#42. The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.
Claudio Naranjo
#43. I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
Ken Kesey
#44. Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget ... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
John Lennon
#46. I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
Timothy Leary
#47. Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#48. I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.
Sam Andrew
#49. I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.
Albert Hofmann
#50. LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
Timothy Leary
#51. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
#52. LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
Stanislav Grof
#53. I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol ... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.
Ozzy Osbourne
#54. LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
Albert Hofmann
#55. Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
Hunter S. Thompson
#56. The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it
Ralph Metzner
#57. LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
Terence McKenna
#58. Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
John Waters
#59. The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to existed only in the moment itself - Now - and any attempt to plan, compose, orchestrate, write a script, only locked you out the moment, back to the world of conditioning and training where the brain was a reducing valve
Tom Wolfe
#60. Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'
Hunter S. Thompson
#61. I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.
Dan Rather
#62. When I saw the Pulse concert when I was 13 with the light show and all,
I thought,
I don't know what lsd is, but I wish I was on it right now.
Sienna McQuillen
#64. Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.
Benjamin
#65. St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by Alex Grey, 2012
Rhoney Gissen Stanley
#66. Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.
Stanislav Grof
#68. How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.
Bill Hicks
#69. Do you think we would become a better civilization if we all took acid? TR: Oh, absolutely. I think that LSD is the genie in the bottle of the world.
Mara Altman
#71. The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
Ralph Metzner
#72. My total sellout to LSD, marijuana, and hashish, and to sex with virtually any attractive man, landed me in the hospital for four months. I was half dead from gonorrhea and a complete physical breakdown.
Susan Atkins
#73. Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
Timothy Leary
#74. LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your head you have to go out of your mind" "You are a God, act like one"
Timothy Leary
#75. I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.
Dan Rather
#76. LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.
Ken Kesey
#77. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
Mick Jagger
#78. I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.
Ralph Metzner
#79. Crashing from love is worse than crashing from pot, or LSD, or going cold turkey from heroin. Nobody should be allowed to do love. Love should be illegal.
Doug Shear
#80. Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!
Stephen Richards
#81. It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
Paul McCartney
#82. I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.
John Waters
#83. The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
Linus Torvalds
#84. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
Albert Hofmann
#85. Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?
Frank Zappa
#86. You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.
Stephen Biro
#87. Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into all the basic frequencies and harmonics, with all their different loudnesses, and listen to them, each pure tone, but all at once.
Thomas Pynchon
#88. She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson
#89. We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.
Amos Tutuola
#90. Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.
Timothy Leary
#91. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel Silverstein
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