Side Effects Quotes

“You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Deep spirit scanning,” Eisfanger says. His voice has a strange resonance to it, like I’m hearing him through a bad phone connection. “Don’t worry, it’s completely safe. Well, mostly.”

“Mostly?”

“Side effects have been documented,” he admits. “In a very small percentage of cases. Less than two percent.”

“What kind of side effects?” Suddenly I’m feeling nauseous. Feels like the ants are crawling around inside me now, which is exactly as disturbing as it sounds.

“Memory loss. Synesthesia. And occasionally … vestigial growths.”

“So I could forget my own name, start smelling purple everywhere and have an extra nipple sprout from my forehead?”
― D.D. Barant, Back from the Undead

“Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects.”
― Piyush Kaviraj

“There are alternatives to medication, though they tend to have more disruptive side effects."

"Like what?"

"Have you ever been in love?"

"In what sense?"

"We'll cross that road when we come to it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“That,” she says, then clears her throat. “That’s a bit terrifying.”
His lips twitch. “Isn’t that a side effect of love?”
― Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls

“The 'side effects and warnings' on the Internet were discouraging, and anxieties over them amplified the volume of my thoughts, which was the exact opposite of what I hoped the pills would do.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“The real function of some solutions is to create or perpetuate a problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“ADHD meds are amphetamines. They’re highly addictive and host a bevy of side effects that can lead to psychosis. We're giving these to young children without truly researching the full long-term impact this has on the human brain, much less an underdeveloped one.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“There is a violent chemistry beneath romantic emotions which is never conducted without collateral damage.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“If you feel comfortable enough to spill your guts to a stranger you pay per hour to do that with, then you'll be receptive to the idea of taking pharmaceutical dry ice with side effects that range from egregious to deadly.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“The side effects of love may stimulate a love attack, with the heartache since it can cause the waves and breeze of danger, for the rest of one's life.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“With some things we are trying to solve some of the problems that are caused by some of the things with which we are trying to solve some of the problems that are caused by some things.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As each medicine has and holds the various side-effects; as similarly, together or marital life also carries side-effects of anger, irritation, conflict, boring. However, the dangerous side-effect of it that affects as the divorce, causing the end, even the death of the relationship.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Once my hair is gone, once I can no longer taste my food, once I have passed out while shopping for a bread knife in IKEA, once the ex-lovers have all visited to make one last attempt to get me in bed, once the generous humiliations of crowdsourced charity have assured me months of organic produce, I have become a patient. The old ways are through. Any horizon is made of medicine.”
― Ann Boyer

“A solution is often a seed of another problem … or other problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes a solution gets rid of at most one problem, but causes, comes with, or leads to at least two problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup is often used to hide a facial skin condition that was worsened, or even caused, by makeup.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“One of the side effects of good psychedelics is you can't remember how much you took.”
― Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach

“It always intrigues me that most medications have one or two ways to help you, and about a dozen side-effects that will kill you. Yet it seems that most political strategies are all side-effects and no solution.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everything carries side effects; however, only a partner uniquely ferries a life effect; it matters.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Developing supplement protocols requires watching for health improvements, side effects, toxicity and societal prejudices.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.”
― Jim Butcher, Peace Talks

“People asking for side-effects of protein powders should understand that it’s ten times safer than processed foods, alcohol, and smoking; if you know the ingredient.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“It was clear I had recovered from COVID-19 with the fewest lasting side effects as compared to the infected household. I was the only one taking the nutritional supplements in the book ‘COVID Supplements’.”
― Steven Magee

“Isobel: Will you still be a surrogate, Cian?

Oscar: Fucking hell.

Moses: See? It’s already starting.

Cian: Of course, doll. But it can’t always be me. You might form an attachment to me.

Isobel: No danger of that.

Cian: Wow.”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“Why are many police officers corrupt? For some of them, it is coming from the long-term side effects of their risky and stressful job.”
― Steven Magee