Opium Quote by Tony Kushner

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

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

— Sebastian Faulks

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 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

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Andre Malraux

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

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

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

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

— Anais Nin