Opium Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Opium Quotes
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“Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.”
Thomas De Quincey Quotes
“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
Andre Malraux Quotes
“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.”
Thomas Sydenham Quotes
“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”
Andre Malraux Quotes
“Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.”
Thomas De Quincey Quotes