67 Quotes About Heroin

Is our future to include the appearance of a new synthetic drug, a hundred or a thousand times more addictive than heroin or crack? The answer is yes-unless we bring to consciousness and examine the basic human need for chemical dependency and then find and sanction avenues for expression of this need.

Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.

I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who’s too perfect to be real - NanaThe only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi

It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

When people tell me the heroin problem is so big,so tragic, so complicated, I say so what. So what. We can learn our way through this.

When people tell me the heroin problem is so big, so tragic, so complicated, I say so what. So what. We can learn our way through this. If you want to know what humanity can accomplish, drive to the airport. Until about 100 years ago, everyhuman being was stuck on the ground.

What the inventors of Alcoholics Anonymous got right was the idea of total change, reinforced constantly by ritual and companionship, plus practical advice. People who use heroin need these same things, and more. Emphasis on more.

My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

Heroin is a stand-in, a stop-gap, a mask, for what we believe is missing. Like the "objects" seen by Plato's man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can't see directly.