"Confessions of an English Opium Eater" Quotes

I would rather be a kitten and cry, ‘Mew, mew,’ all day than be that monstrous thing I was the day before.

I am a miserable man; and have been so from the womb, and so shall I be to the tomb, I fear.

I am too weak even to struggle against my own sick heart.

What are drugs, and what is the love of drugs? It is a monster in which is treasured up the secret for destroying the world.

Oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Weariness and sleep oppressed him. The night was bad; and he was glad when he saw the morning light.

I took my leave of opium in a moment of horror.

I, who had never thoroughly understood the uses of the opium I took, now trembled at the mysteries of endless perdition.

In the first stage of the opium war, I miscalculated my own forces and those of the enemy.

Numbers of people who would have shuddered at the proposition of rubbing off a particular spot on the furniture, have, without reluctance, agitated the question of erasing whole years from their life.