morphine

Noun

Meaning

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. D. H. Lawrence

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long. Susan Kay

You think I am crazy. You will try to give me morphine. Get out of here; you are sacked. Get that medical uniform off. Go home and act as if you had never had anything to do with me. Theodor Morell

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. Polly Toynbee

Before my father started using morphine again he sent me to a Japanese person to learn something called Karate. I learn these things fast because I am blank inside, and I have no special way of moving or doing things so one way is the same to me as another. ‘. William S. Burroughs

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