I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The understanding of knowledge that increases intoxication (of ‘I Know’) is terrible ignorance. Intoxication (of ‘I know’) is dissolved with (right) knowledge.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in… — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.” — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long. — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
