Intoxication Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Adventure, Blood, Firsts

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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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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• 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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• …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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• 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 Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Past, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• 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 have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Men, Acting

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• 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 !

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

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• 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.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Philosophy, Wine, Cutting

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Wine, Elderly

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Color, Giving, Trying

  "Art of the 20th Century". Book by Ingo F. Walther, Part 1, p. 49, 2000.

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• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Beer, Parent, Overcoming

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• What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

  Francis of Assisi

  Death, Wine, Omnipotence

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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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• 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.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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• 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 of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Love Is

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• 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, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Impact, Silence

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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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• [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 or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Real, Book, Mind

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