Addiction Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image ““Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.”” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Art Catholicism Drugs Faith French French literature Jesus Opium Religion
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino» Copy Share Image
“religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.” — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
“I know well enough that one of those leaders of what they call the Social Revolution said that religion is the opium of the… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It’s more like the smelling salts.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
