Intoxication Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It… — Hermann Hesse
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia!… — Jean Dubuffet
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical… — Pierre de Coubertin
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my… — Khalil Gibran
Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with â€˜agencyâ€™ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion… — Talal Asad
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication. — Kilmer S. McCully
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego… — Kenny Smith
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in. — Charles Hart
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. — Ella Maillart
Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated… — William Lyon Phelps
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of… — Bruno Bauer
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored… — Alex Gaskarth
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. — Samuel Johnson
It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking… — Susan Sarandon
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to… — Gautama Buddha
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound… — Alfred de Musset

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