Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so… — Thomas Sydenham 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
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so… — Graham Greene 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
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women,… — Doug Stanhope 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
When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
“- I picked these last night. I want you to have them. - Th-thanks. What kind of flowers are these? They're pretty.… — Shouji Gatou Copy Share Image
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nice work in their, Herondale, setting the place on fire," Gabriel observed. "Good thing we were there to clean up after you,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“MacGregor shrugged. 'More than the population are opium addicts,' he said. 'Don't dismiss it like that,' she told him impatiently. 'I'm not… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
