Caffeine Quotes

“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

“The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

“Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises

“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“One must savor the coffee, to actually have it.”
― Mohith Agadi

“Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.”
― Daniel G. Amen, Preventing Alzheimer's: Ways to Help Prevent, Delay, Detect, and Even Halt Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Memory Loss

“My heart beats too loudly at the change in plans.
Changes happen sometimes; they aren’t always a bad thing. I grip my coffee cup and wriggle my toes. I can do this, the coffee says; of course you can, the meds reply.”
― Anna Whateley, Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal

“Caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain.”
― Daniel G. Amen

“Caffeine’ is a euphemism for ‘Anxiety wrapped in increased alertness’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“The half-life of caffeine -- that is, the time taken for the concentration in your bloodstream to drop by 50 per cent -- is between three and seven hours, with an average of about four hours. Therefore, if you drink several cups of strong coffee during your harassed working day, your blood will still contain substantial amounts of caffeine when you go to bed several hours later.”
― Paul Martin

“We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate.

[Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]”
― Bennett Alan Weinberg, The World of Caffeine

“Her dark thoughts spilled like a large coffee overflowing in an espresso cup. The coffee was bitter and strong, full of caffeine. It was a drug she didn't like, an addiction of darkness that was embedded inside her. It was a coffee being served without a smile, and one that she didn't want to drink.”
― Arti Manani, The Colours of Denial

“Consuming caffeine gives us a taste of insanity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The coffee was shockingly, blisteringly good: hot but not hot enough to scald, the paper cup warm in Mahit's palms. It had a rich, earthy taste that wasn't anything like the instant coffee on Lsel, and in some better moment Mahit thought she'd really like to drink it slowly enough to think about all the different qualities of the flavor-

‹There are varieties,> Yskandr said, ‹and they all taste different. It's fantastic. But the important part is the caffeine.>

He was right. Even in the few minutes Mahit had been drinking the coffee, she felt more present, more acute, conscious of a faint thrumming in her skin.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“Caffeine suspends hopelessness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“caffeine fixture
liquid buzz
kinda makes the
juices curl
inside and
out
like havin
a pair of
powdery legs
wrapped
tightly
around
your neck –
strong
and just
a little
wicked”
― Scott C. Holstad, Distant Visions, Again and Again

“Daily consumption of caffeine makes sleeping long enough seem like a waste of time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is probably significant that the most widespread words in the world—borrowed into virtually every language—are the names of the four great caffeine plants: coffee, cacao, cola, and tea.

[Quoting F.N. Anderson’s ‘The Food of China’ (1988).]”
― Bennett Alan Weinberg, The World of Caffeine

“I have been a regular coffee drinker since I was twenty-six years old.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“When I have been compell’d to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv’d my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble.

[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
― Bennett Alan Weinberg, The World of Caffeine

“Putting caffeine in our body puts us in the shoes of the insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Without good sleep we’re not able to operate at our best, and yet, when it comes right down to it, we typically do a lot more to stay awake than we do to get the sleep we need.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“coffee: (n.) caffeinated beverage God gave us to drink in the morning so we might resist the urge to crawl immediately back in bed.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Capitalism owes a third of its success to conspicuous consumption, and another third to the consumption of caffeine.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It turns and that caffeine is a highly addictive substance with really unpleasant physical withdrawal symptoms, if you’re not bumping your brain chemistry to compensate, and that one of those withdrawal symptoms is an evil splitting headache. Which Farweather told me all about, in excruciating detail, except when she was sleeping, or just curled up suffering on the floor.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night

“shower time, steam rising, going on a caffeine binge – it’s not the juice that juices me, it’s that taste and the rock and roll blaring evil and gorgeous in the morning darkness”
― Scott C. Holstad, Hang Gliding on X

“The sugar, caffeine, stars outside—and Winona's across from me, our knees touching under the table—loosened my tongue better than liquor would.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“Trying to make a movie is a tawdry, soul-crushing, stress-inducing, backstabbing, sleep-deprived, caffeine-overdosed nightmare—and that's just Tuesday.”
― Don Roff