Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train ...while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. Th...ere exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism.... The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while ...they are being overloaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opi...um of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything th...at exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of P...aris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some p...hysical aid to their moral consolations--wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »