Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people. — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“his wife, it seems, would very soon be excorting his sister to a certain clinic near New Delhi, where she might die… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues… — Roman Payne 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in… — Thomas De Quincy Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — William S. Burroughs 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
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne 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
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At the time you've got skills and possessions, train yourself to be able to survive without them.” — Toba Beta 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
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne 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
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
