I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in. — Charles Hart Copy Share Image
“Take it from glass, take it from goblet, else take it from my eyes, the intoxication, you will never come out from” — Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh Copy Share Image
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“There is no intoxicant more dangerous than the passion of love; intoxicating both the holder and the beholder.” — Huseyn Raza 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
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” she said. “Are you drunk?” She noticed what a split second it took for him to flare into aggression. “Do… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of… — Charlaine Harris 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
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
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle 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
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
“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