--- title: "2 Heroin Quotes By Sam Quinones" description: "2 Heroin quotes by Sam Quinones. Plus more from Sam Quinones and more Heroin sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e24/sam-quinones-45607_addiction_when-your-kid-s-dying-from-a-brain-tumor_116890.jpg" --- > [“When your kid’s dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you. They send you cards. When your kid’s on heroin, you don’t hear from anybody, until they die. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/when-your-kid-s-dying-from-a-brain-tumor-or-leukemia-the-whole/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e24/sam-quinones-45607_addiction_when-your-kid-s-dying-from-a-brain-tumor_116890.jpg) > [“Why then do we wonder that heroin is everywhere? In our isolation, heroin thrives; that's its natural habitat. And our very search for painlessness led us to it. Heroin is, I believe, the final expression of values we have fostered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/why-then-do-we-wonder-that-heroin-is-everywhere-in-our-isolation/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/sam-quinones-45607_addiction_why-then-do-we-wonder-that-heroin-is-eve_2510148.jpg) ## Other authors on Heroin - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephenie-meyer-87156.jpg) Stephenie Meyer 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroin/stephenie-meyer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-russell-brand-81772.jpg) Russell Brand 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroin/russell-brand/) ## More by Sam Quinones > [“When your kid’s dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you. They send…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/when-your-kid-s-dying-from-a-brain-tumor-or-leukemia-the-whole/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“Excess contaminated the best of America. Caltech churned out brilliant students, yet too many of them now went not to science but to Wall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/excess-contaminated-the-best-of-america-caltech-churned-out-brilliant/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“The cost savings weren’t what did the trick, though. Treatment has always been more effective and cheaper than prison for true drug addicts. What’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/the-cost-savings-weren-t-what-did-the-trick-though-treatment-has/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“Certain parasites in nature exert the kind of control that makes a host act contrary to its own interests. One protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, reproduces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/certain-parasites-in-nature-exert-the-kind-of-control-that-makes-a/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“Worldwide pharmaceutical opiate production rose steadily but it was the United States...that now consumed 83 percent of the world's oxycodone and fully 99 percent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/worldwide-pharmaceutical-opiate-production-rose-steadily-but-it-was/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“In fact, pain was really not a vital sign, after all, for unlike the four real vital signs it cannot be measured objectively and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/in-fact-pain-was-really-not-a-vital-sign-after-all-for-unlike-the/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“Most of the country’s twenty-eight hundred drug courts are set up to divert drug abusers away from jail and prison and into treatment somewhere.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/most-of-the-country-s-twenty-eight-hundred-drug-courts-are-set-up-to/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) > [“Why then do we wonder that heroin is everywhere? In our isolation, heroin thrives; that's its natural habitat. And our very search for painlessness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-quinones/why-then-do-we-wonder-that-heroin-is-everywhere-in-our-isolation/) [Sam Quinones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-quinones/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroin/sam-quinones/#itemlist", "name": "2 Heroin Quotes By Sam Quinones", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When your kid’s dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you. They send you cards. When your kid’s on heroin, you don’t hear from anybody, until they die. 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