Intoxication Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. — Jim Harrison
What? Youâ€™d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?â€ Thatâ€™s when you need a drink the most. — Charles Bukowski
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But alwaysâ€” do not forget this, Winstonâ€”… — George Orwell
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. — Erich Maria Remarque
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish… — Charles Baudelaire
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice
I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength… — Doris Lessing
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing… — Rumi
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of… — Lord Byron
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about… — Dorothy L. Sayers
â€ŽAnd when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore;… — Seth Grahame-Smith
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,… — Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more… — Anais Nin
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege… — Charles Baudelaire
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness. — August Bournonville

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