Approach Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

— Tony Kushner

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not…

— H. Rider Haggard

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

— Jonathan Swift

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

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

— Andre Malraux

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

“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt to the…

— Andrew Marr

“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

“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

“MacGregor shrugged. 'More than the population are opium addicts,' he said. 'Don't dismiss it like that,' she told him impatiently. 'I'm not dismissing it,'…

— James Aldridge