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
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. — Sebastian Faulks 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
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
“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
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic… — Douglas Valentine 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of… — Han Suyin 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
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices.… — David Mitchell 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
“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
