After death Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— Andre Malraux

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

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

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

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

— Tony Kushner

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

— Sebastian Faulks

“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

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

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not…

— H. Rider Haggard

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

— Sebastian Faulks

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross