Leonard Cohen Quotes

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.

If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.