The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much… — Howard L. Fields Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But… — Donna Marsh Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about… — Alison Moore Copy Share Image
The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
“Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed… — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Opiates: Perk 30s, Oxy Contins, Morphine, Heroin, and many more… Iits all over the high schools and they just suck the life… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
“There’s a saying that goes something like: ‘We are all one drink or pill away from addiction,’ and I know this is… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
“the media, at least in the U.S., tends to focus on pain pill use, abuse, and addiction by people who do not… — Anna Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Since my symptoms began 13 years ago, I’ve tried every form of pain management I could access — NSAIDS, nonopioid analgesics, neurologic… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image