Opium Quote by Andre Malraux

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

— Sebastian Faulks

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

— Sebastian Faulks

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There…

— Miguel de Unamuno

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless…

— Jean Cocteau

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the…

— Jean Cocteau

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious…

— Thomas Sydenham

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short…

— Erasmus Darwin

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

— Auberon Waugh

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

— John Cheever

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

— Tony Kushner

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

— Shirley Chisholm