Difficulty Quote by Sebastian Faulks Download Open image “The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.” — Sebastian Faulks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Difficulty Opium Pain
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer’s billiard table.” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Stephen watched the packets of lives with their memories and loves go spinning and vomiting into the ground. Death had no meaning, but still… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
By the time you have no difficulties in your life, you have achieved Heaven. — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
