“The doctor came and prescribed opium for me. What a marvellous remedy for the pains of my experience!” — Sadegh Hedayat 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
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau 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
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should… — Helen Cresswell Copy Share Image
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“it’s yours until it makes an appearance in the world. It’s yours in the same way your liver is; you wouldn’t catch… — Natasha Pulley 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
“Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n’y a de continuellement bon que l’habitude d’un travail entêté. Il… — Flaubert (how very sad Copy Share Image
“My love", she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, "now… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At the time, we were told that this was also the area from which up to ninety-eight percent of the opium, and… — Nicholas Irving Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin 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
..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
“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
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
“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
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and… — Michael DeLong 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
