Top 125 Intoxication Quotes & Sayings

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.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

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! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

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 to the bottom.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

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 walls.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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 of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.

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 press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

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 one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

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 bendy-straws

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 it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

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 in my heart !

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.