Intoxication Quotes

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The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to… — Alfred de Musset
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than… — Georges Duhamel
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper
Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard… — Edgar Wilson Nye
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 Ego. It's the… — Steven Pressfield
In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the… — Shan Sa
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat… — Franz Kafka
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche
we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to… — Milan Kundera
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of lifeâ€™s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!… — Victor Hugo
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I… — Emile M. Cioran
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains… — Emily Dickinson
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life… — Frank Herbert
â€¦I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell

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