Storytelling has a narcotic power.

Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'

— Clive Thompson

“Nostalgia is a narcotic.”

— Elissa Schappell

Books are a narcotic.

— Franz Kafka

Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might…

— Marianne Bluger

“Ego is the world's worst narcotic”

— Mekael Shane

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

— Octavia Butler

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

— Kalle Lasn

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

— Andrzej Stasiuk

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism

— Anonymous

By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction…

— Kristi Funk

“Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.”

— Saki

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

— Robert Benchley

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies…

— Robert Graves

“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

— William S. Burroughs