Overdose Quotes

I haven`t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven`t been in jail, and I don`t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That`s something of an accomplishment these days.

It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don`t mention that because they don`t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock `n` roll when in fact he took it from black culture; they had been singing that way for years before he came along, copied them and became a star.

"Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, `You don`t want to have contacts with those people.` Look at what happened to River Phoenix (who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room). If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage."

The most damage I did was to myself and to the people who got caught in the maelstrom. The worst thing that happened was the overdose. But I didn`t go in with three other dudes who overdosed with me. No, you overdose alone.

I nearly died, which is about as bad as you can get. I`m totally convinced that drugs and alcohol brought me very close to death two or three times, and it`s more luck than anything else that I`m still alive. My spirit was dying and I believe when your spirit dies, it`s only a matter of time before your body follows. - On his near fatal drug overdose.

I think, you know...it just changes you (the drug overdose of River Phoenix), I know for me it was never an issue, about that lifestyle. I learned relationships aren`t very important, or worth it, I mean even River wasn`t worth my time. I`ve grown, I`m not 23 anymore and he`ll always be Forever Young". It goes down to priorities. I didn`t need that hassle." - on moving on and what is meaningful to her. A British Interview 1996.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

There are some days when I think I`m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredible feelings to sort through. Who is being too polite to say what? Who knows what? What did I do? Why? And most hauntingly, when will it happen again? Then, too, are the bitter reminders..... medicine to take, resent, forget, take, resent, and forget, but always to take.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.