Around the world Quote by Charles Baudelaire

“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

“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

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!”

— Steve Wiegand

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I feel The Fear coming on, and the only cure for that is to chew up a fat black wad of blood-opium about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues and talk…

— Roman Payne

“The first time I goofed out on Heroin was 1985. It was like sinking into a sea of warm marmalade. And once submerged in…

— U.V. Ray

“Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.”

— Thomas de Quincey

“...but with each step you take while fleeing, your baggage grows less and less, with more and more left behind, and sooner or later…

— Jenny Erpenbeck