Almighty Quote by Thomas Sydenham

“Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as…

— Thomas Sydenham

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

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Andre Malraux

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro

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

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

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

— Jonathan Swift

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

— Sebastian Faulks

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

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