Death and dying Quote by Graham Greene

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Steve Wiegand

“Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.”

— Poppet

“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of…

— charles baudelaire

“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

“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

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

“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

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

— Sebastian Faulks

“Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a…

— Blaise Cendrars

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

— Tony Kushner