That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.” — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The doctor came and prescribed opium for me. What a marvellous remedy for the pains of my experience!” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously.… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I know well enough that one of those leaders of what they call the Social Revolution said that religion is the opium… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication,… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this,… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“You won't do this, my son! I won't have you waste your life. Musicians, artists, criminals, opium addicts ... You'll end up… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
“Opium for tea—a formula which not only explains the successes of English imperialism in the Far East, but which thoroughly typified Europe's… — Wolfgang Schivelbusch Copy Share Image
“the same receptor sites in our brains that respond to heroine and opium (the opiate receptors) are triggered by wheat.” — Robb Wolf Copy Share Image
In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves.” — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“I’m merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That’s… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
![“[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.” quote by Evgeny Morozov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b87/evgeny-morozov-2995_assuming_people-somehow-assume-that-the-internet_1302634.png)
![“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.” quote by Bruno Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/de4/bruno-bauer-41690_destructive_after-fulfilling-its-destructive-urge-to_384927.jpg)
