Detachment Quote by Margaret Atwood

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

— Aldous Huxley

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.

— Rachel Renée Russell

“Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication.”

— Avijeet Das

“I sigh into her and give up the fight. My fingers thread through her hair, pulling her closer, knowing I'll never get enough of…

— Stacey Jay

“I had gone for the letters at once. The post always intoxicates me; everythin it throws on to the mat is a magic square…

— Rachel Ferguson

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“It is absurd and dangerous to imagine that God would have approved and encouraged the moderate use of a substance which intoxicates our organism,…

— Samuele Bacchiocchi

If there's music in the night, and it's really, really right, it's the only thing I need. It intoxicates your mind. All your troubles…

— Jamie Cullum

“The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here. No one is at His side to be famous, to rule on Earth.”

— Anonymous

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

— John Godfrey Saxe

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

— Rebecca Lee Crumpler

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

— Susan Ertz