“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. — Ludwig von Mises 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
“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
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw 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
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of… — Thomas De Quincey 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
“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
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
“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
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is… — Kenneth Anger 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
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
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan 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
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner 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
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner 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
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
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image