Top 73 Quotes About Narcotic
#1. The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud
#3. The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
Thomas Szasz
#4. A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Martin H. Fischer
#5. You are like a narcotic plant.
Olga Goa
#6. Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
Cesar Aira
#7. This man's pure narcotic, delicious and addictive. Don't know how I thought I could walk away from him for good.
Ann Aguirre
#8. Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette
in the narcotic repose between two love-makings
or the absent gaze of a passerby
who takes off his hat to another passerby
with a meaningless smile and a good morning
Forough Farrokhzad
#9. Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
Eugene H. Peterson
#10. Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'
Clive Thompson
#12. Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
#13. War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.
Chris Hedges
#14. Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
#15. Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive.
James Lee Burke
#16. When I was in college I had a wisdom tooth pulled, and I was given a prescription for a bottle of narcotic pills that surely have reached the top of the DEA's hit-list by now. I don't remember the name of the pills, nor do I remember how I ended up in Tijuana. It's probably a long story.
Gary Reilly
#17. Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die
Marianne Bluger
#18. Srad was a fruit with mildly narcotic properties- tonight the villagers ingested large quantities of it in order to feel the narcotic effects.
Christie Sims
#19. Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#20. By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.
Kristi Funk
#21. I slump in my chair, thinking how a narcotic party of one is no party at all.
Elle Lothlorien
#22. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
David Levithan
#23. Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
R. Scott Bakker
#24. Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.
Saki
#25. Oh, yes. I've known kisses so narcotic they made my eyes roll back in my head. For a few weeks one winter I walked around feeling like I had a miniature sun in my heart.
Tim Kreider
#26. Except he and I know that some pain burrows so deep, no narcotic can ever soothe it. It's etched on your bones. It hides in your marrow, like cancer. If the boy survives, the pain is a memory he won't want.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#27. If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
Christopher Hitchens
#28. Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Russell Baker
#29. Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances.
Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves to daylight.
Anais Nin
#30. Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
Allen Ginsberg
#31. There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation ... I have no idea why
Joyce Carol Oates
#32. The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
Terence McKenna
#33. Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
Rex Murphy
#34. Faith is the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion.
C.J. Anderson
#35. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
C. G. Jung
#36. The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.
Harriet Lane
#37. Once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us, the first narcotic we craved and languished in. We've tamed, refined it, but the juice from a peach still runs like a flash flood.
Stephanie Danler
#38. Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.
R. Scott Bakker
#39. The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion.
Conclusion: Invisible love is wasted. Invisible evidence is worthless. Invisible God is non-existent.
C.J. Anderson
#40. Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition
Jim Rohn
#42. Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Fear after a time, as we all learned in the blitz, is narcotic, it can lull one by fatigue into sleep, but apprehension nags at the nerves gently and inescapably. We have to learn to live with it.
Patricia Highsmith
#43. Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics postoperatively is dramatically reduced or even eliminated.
Kristi Funk
#44. I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.
Doug Stanhope
#45. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
#46. "Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug ... booze is a drug ... many drugs ... They're all around us.
Hunter S. Thompson
#47. The venom," she [Susan] said quietly. "They call it their Kiss."
"I guess I can't blame them. It sounds a lot more romantic than 'narcotic drool.
Jim Butcher
#48. On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Peter Straub
#49. Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#50. The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
Ian MacKaye
#52. Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
Stuart Stevens
#53. Academy. And what a narcotic the drug of positive feedback
Deon Meyer
#54. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
Soren Kierkegaard
#55. Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.
Rolf Potts
#56. Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo.
Helen Fielding
#57. THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
James Lee Burke
#58. I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned Bell & Howard. As the film goes in one end, at the other end it's immediately eaten by some kind of acid, dissolving the second the events transpire.
Jerry Stahl
#60. Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity.
J.G. Ballard
#61. A club there is of smokers
dare you come
To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
When, midnight past, the very candles seem
Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.
George Crabbe
#62. I wanted to build a fire with our shadow selves and burn there or be erased by the narcotic of limerence when I turned your face into a fire: a love story.
Melissa Broder
#63. Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.
Robert Benchley
#64. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.
Jennifer Arnett
#65. The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.
Kalle Lasn
#66. He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober,
Ilona Andrews
#67. She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.
Janet Fitch
#68. First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.
T.D. Jakes
#69. Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
R.J. Ellory
#70. With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
Louis Kronenberger
#71. I've been in love before. It's like narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can control things. You think about the person for two minutes and forget them for three hours.
Paulo Coelho
#72. I browsed casually, lulled with the smell of novels: paper and glue and magic, mingled with the scent of freshly brewing coffee and the faintest trace of brownies. It was practically narcotic.
Jessica Gadziala
#73. I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
William S. Burroughs
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