Opium Quotes - Page 6

• The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

  Anais Nin

  Diaries, Want, Evening

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• For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

  Fanny Brice

  Dollars, Pipe, Thousand

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• Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

  Helen Cresswell

  Garden, Sea, Weather

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

  Edgar Snow

  War, Russia, People

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

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• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

  Terry Eagleton

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  People, Belief, Solace

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• Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Believe, Mean, Creative

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• I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

  Jeet Thayil

  Cities, Drug, Bombay

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Betrayal, Thinking, People

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Doctors, Mind

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.355, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

  Chinua Achebe

  Charity, Philanthropy, Privileged

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• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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