Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the…

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

— William Penn

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more…

— Anais Nin

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic…

— Florence Nightingale

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Gerard De Nerval

“How is intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) recognized? It is when one says, ‘Yours is wrong’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicating Person in the universe.”

— Catherine Toon

For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal.…

— Hermann Hesse

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the…

— Emily Dickinson

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind…

— Mary Augusta Ward

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

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

— Walt Whitman