Intoxication Quotes

Intoxication Quote of the day

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation