Top Opium Quotes

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay– Jeet Thayil

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

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.– Andr Malraux

…then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.– Anas Nin

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

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere– Karina Cooper

