--- title: "1 Clutch Quotes By W.N.P. Barbellion" description: "1 Clutch quotes by W.N.P. Barbellion. Plus more from W.N.P. Barbellion and more Clutch sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/w-n-p-barbellion-27285_clutch_youth-is-an-intoxication-without-wine-so_2086977.jpg" --- > [Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/youth-is-an-intoxication-without-wine-someone-says-life-is-an/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/w-n-p-barbellion-27285_clutch_youth-is-an-intoxication-without-wine-so_2086977.jpg) ## More by W.N.P. Barbellion > [“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/the-porter-spends-his-days-in-the-library-keeping-strict-vigil-over/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/sometimes-i-think-i-am-going-mad-i-live-for-days-in-the-mystery-and/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“I have reveled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to live dangerously,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-have-reveled-in-my-littleness-and-irresponsibility-it-has-relieved/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/suddenly-i-awake-to-a-stark-amazement-at-everything-to-be-alive-is-so/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/to-forget-the-past-so-easily-seems-scarcely-loyal-to-oneself-i-am-so/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-waste-much-time-gaping-and-wondering-during-a-walk-or-in-a-book-or/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-can-remember-wondering-as-a-child-if-i-were-a-young-macaulay-or/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/an-appetite-for-knowledge-is-apt-to-rush-one-off-one-s-feet-like-any/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak in front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/when-the-sun-grew-too-hot-we-went-into-the-wood-where-waves-of/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I cannot prevent them. I consider the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/when-i-feel-ill-cinema-pictures-of-the-circumstances-of-my-death-flit/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/in-the-enfranchised-mind-of-the-scientific-naturalist-the-usual/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/youth-is-an-intoxication-without-wine-someone-says-life-is-an/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“Civilisation and top hats bore me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/civilisation-and-top-hats-bore-me/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/how-i-hate-the-man-who-talks-about-the-brute-creation-with-an-ugly/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/her-journal-is-my-journal-all-mine-is-stale-reading-now-she-has/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clutch/w-n-p-barbellion/#itemlist", "name": "1 Clutch Quotes By W.N.P. Barbellion", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. 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