The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

... franking junkies ...

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.