Dark secrets Quote by Roman Payne

“The opium of majestic twilights, and the marvel stretching out in the darkness, as the hand withdraws from the tatters …”

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“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

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

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

— Steve Wiegand

“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

“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

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

“The first casualty of war is truth, and the war on drugs is no different”

— Dominic Milton Trott

“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world, except for…

— John Baxter

“Some promises were meant to be broken, just as some secrets you didn’t share, no matter how much you wanted to. Some secrets were…

— Nina D'Angelo