Hero Quote by Thomas de Quincey

“And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what…

— Charles Baudelaire

“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

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

— Jonathan Swift

“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 question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed,…

— Thomas de Quincey

“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

“Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.”

— Thomas de Quincey

“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

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

— Steve Wiegand

“He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides and the motions of the planets, and fondly on the effects of opium.”

— Bill Bryson

“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.”

— Steven Moore

“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