Quotes About Narcotic

youth is its own narcotic, its impermanence our greatest worry and greatest loss. So why put on sackcloth and ashes over the memories we should guard like blue diamonds the rest of our lives?

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

And Capwell did feel it, a hot surge of power and vitality and elation. It was as if he'd just won a million bucks in a contest, had a triple orgasm, received a shot of a potent narcotic, drunk deeply from the Fountain of Youth. Simultaneously.

She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.

Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'

Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Fear after a time, as we all learned in the blitz, is narcotic, it can lull one by fatigue into sleep, but apprehension nags at the nerves gently and inescapably. We have to learn to live with it.

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

I have sworn off the news because there is nothing new, and reiteration of the well-known and unfortunate serves no purpose other than as the bad narcotic of despair.

The venom, she [Susan] said quietly. They call it their Kiss. I guess I can't blame them. It sounds a lot more romantic than 'narcotic drool.

When the pain was gone, its simple lack was a nearly narcotic pleasure of its own.

À toutes mes haines acidulées, vous avez donné le narcotique raisonnable.

If I use empathy to liberate people to be less depressed, to get along better with their family, and at the same time not inspire them to use their energy to rapidly transform systems in the world, then I am part of the problem. I am essentially calming people down, making them happier to live in the systems as they are, and I am using empathy as a narcotic.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.