Intoxication Quotes - Page 3

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Excitement, Habit, Natural

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Revenge, Struggle

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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 Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.

  Steven Pressfield

  Talking, Ego, Demolition

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• Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If you view flowers in full bloom and drink to drunkenness, it becomes a bad experience. Those who are living to the full should think about this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fun, Flower, Wine

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

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Mad

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Excitement, Ill

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Invisible, Champagne, Permanent

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• Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Land, Quality

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• 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.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Mind, Deterioration, Noise

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• We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.

  Thomas Berry

  Blow, Oil, Rivers

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• Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Drunk, Mad, Sobriety

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.167

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• Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

  Mary Wigman

  Character, Night, Ideas

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fever, Youth, Reason

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Mushrooms, Levels, Able

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• 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.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Nature, Color, Delight

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Sports, Fashion

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• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Communication, Emotional, Two

  Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”

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• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Deception, Encounters

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Edwin Balmer

  Emotion, Apocalypse, Annihilation

  Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.97, Macmillan

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• ‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Cities, Desire, Comfort

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• …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 a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mean, Islands, Sea

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Forbidden, Unimportant

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, Mean, Alcohol

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