Addiction Quote by George Andrews

“When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get,…

— Anthony Kiedis

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are…

— Robin Williams

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

— Marianne Faithfull

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and…

— Steven Tyler

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't…

— Frederick Lenz

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the…

— Timothy Leary

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction,…

— Andrew Weil

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

— Layne Staley

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

— Paracelsus

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

— James Joyce

The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

— Frederick Lenz