"Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death."

-- John Cheever

#Pain Quotes #Opium Quotes

“Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.”
“I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.”
“...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.”
“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”
“Yes, Iâ€™m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,â€ said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadnâ€™t moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.”
“Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.10, The Overlook Press
“As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end.”

Source : Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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