Drug Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drug Mouths Pain Sadness Time
It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain. — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and supported. We,… — Dan Brookoff Copy Share Image
I was never shut down by the drugs; that was my problem. Cocaine was an aphrodisiac. I think that was a bit of a… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
After taking 100s of painkillers, I finally realised, it would not kill the pains in my heart which was from you. — Winter Copy Share Image
I honestly think drugs are a way crying for help. If not your calling attention. Doing drugs is like trying to forget the past,… — Osvaldo M Copy Share Image
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on the implications of European maintenance deviations on Intuitionism, expounded on the gloom of the shaft and how it does not merely echo the gloom inside every living creature, but duplicates it perfectly. Afterwards there were mint… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
