Opium Quotes

103 Opium quotes by 71 unique authors

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world. — Jean Cocteau
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of… — Julio Cortazar
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all… — W. Somerset Maugham
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice,… — Czeslaw Milosz
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I… — Libba Bray
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I… — Gideon Defoe
Religion is the opium of the poor — Ernest Hemingway
You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret,"… — Cassandra Clare
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins… — Oscar Wilde
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to… — Charles Bukowski
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are… — Albert Einstein
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.… — Czeslaw Milosz
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil
When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade… — Craig Clevenger
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. — Unknown Author
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. — Karl Marx
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the… — Eddie Campbell
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the… — John Desmond Bernal
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India,… — Robert Trout
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops… — Phillip Adams
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of… — Karl Marx
Drugs: the softest one tends to be the first step towards the hardest of them all. — Jean-Paul Malfatti
Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly… — Thomas De Quincey

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