Absence Quote by Antonin Artaud

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

— Anais Nin

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

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

— Tony Kushner

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

— Andre Malraux

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro

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