Quotes About Painkillers

#1. It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#2. Bitch meter depleted, please insert coffee, booze, and painkillers. "So,

Ashley Meira

#3. Drug abuse and addiction are very real problems, the remedy for which is education and medical treatment, not incarceration. In fact, the most abused drugs in the United States now appear to be oxycodone and other prescription painkillers. Should

Sam Harris

#4. Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.

Veronica Roth

#5. Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.

Rob Portman

#6. Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort.

Gabor Mate

#7. I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

Linda Sunshine

#8. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

Ruth Graham

#9. The waiting area was jammed with the sort of egalitarian cross-section only genuine misery can provide: Hispanics and blacks and Russians and various indeterminate, red-eyed teenage girls with children you prayed were siblings; junkie veterans petitioning for painkillers they wouldn't get;

Jonathan Lethem

#10. The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

Sophie Anderton

#11. We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

Henry Rollins

#12. In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. The snow was knee-deep, my leg hurt, and my sweats were soaked, but I was hopped up on painkillers and a huge dose of pissed off, so I didn't care.

Barbra Annino

#14. That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I?

Sam Hunter

#15. Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray," Kasyanov said. "Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.
Hoop raised an eyebrow.
"Hey. Forever is a long time.

Tim Lebbon

#16. Although Mengele's subjects could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment.

Diane Ackerman

#17. When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping.

Richard K. Morgan

#18. One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#19. Painkillers are the drugs of the future

Steve Aylett

#20. Yesterday the DEA raided several NFL teams suspected of giving prescription painkillers to their players. In its defense, the New York Jets' doctor said, 'We don't give painkillers to our players. We give them to our fans.'

Conan O'Brien

#21. I was unable to throw myself in the ocean, she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers seep into every cell, shutting out lights in empty rooms.

Nick Flynn

#22. When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.

Jasmine Guinness

#23. I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

Keith Olbermann

#24. The CDC recently reported that opiate addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem, with the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year enough to medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.

Taite Adams

#25. If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you're in pain when you're in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.

Liane Moriarty

#26. Are you trying to tell me," said Arthur, slowly and with control, "that you originally . . . made the Earth?

Douglas Adams

#27. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#28. In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

Ruth Glick

#29. There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But then I see these other faces - the ones who commit suicide because they can't handle the pain. Those faces mean just as much to me.

Donna Marsh

#30. Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible.

Jimmy Armfield

#31. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.

Sonya Huber

#32. Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle's head.

Cassandra Clare

#33. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.

Sonya Huber

#34. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.

S. E. Smith

#35. And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.

Anonymous

#36. Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

Charles Ludlam

#37. It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Jodi Picoult

#38. One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

#39. You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Denzel Washington

#40. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven Wright