Complexion Quote by Thomas de Quincey

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

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

Babies laughing is like opium.

— Neil Patrick Harris

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

— Tony Kushner

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

— Anais Nin

“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

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the…

— Jean Cocteau