Drunkenness Quote by Bertrand Russell

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

— Bertrand Russell

“To cheat fate, Victor signed a three-year contract at a big industrial site two thousand miles away. He reckoned that in three years they’d…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has…

— Bertrand Russell

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

— Anais Nin

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there…

— Bertrand Russell

I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing…

— Bertrand Russell

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway.…

— Nazim Hikmet

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully…

— Anonymous

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the…

— Patrick O'Brian