Difficult Quote by Jean Cocteau

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

— Andre Malraux

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short…

— Erasmus Darwin

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

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

— Tony Kushner

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

— Anais Nin

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro