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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
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.