Quotes on Getting High

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.