Marguerite Duras Quotes

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

I drink to forget I drink.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

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.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.