George Carlin Quotes

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

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

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.