Fear Quote by Jerzy Kosiński

“I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.”

— John Harris

“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

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

— Steve Wiegand

“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

“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

“Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit,…

— Pax Prentiss

“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

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

— Jonathan Swift

“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I…

— Libba Bray

“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

“I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!”

— David W Earle

“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