Darkness Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“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

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

— Jonathan Swift

“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

“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

“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

“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

“And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug…

— Andrea Camilleri

“Those who turn the day into night, the young, the drug addict, the profligate, the drunken and that most miserable, the lover who watches…

— Djuna Barnes

“It tasted of twilight and mist, moonlight and frost, emptiness and longing.”

— Julie Kagawa

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

— Steve Wiegand

“Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world”

— F Scott Fitzgerald