Intoxication Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. — Jean Cocteau
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication. — Cyril Connolly
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow… — Benjamin Franklin
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The only proper intoxication is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three… — Francis of Assisi
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and… — Florence Nightingale
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. — Emile M. Cioran
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. — Paula Modersohn-Becker
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going… — Pope Benedict XVI
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate… — William Howard Taft

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