There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Quotes about intoxication (16 Quotes)
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
As to the position that 'the people always mean well,' that they always mean to say and do what they believe to be right and just it may be popular, but it can not be true. The word people applies to all the individual inhabitants of a country.... That portion of them who individually mean well never was, nor until the millennium will be, considerable. Pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication and with it a thousand pranks and fooleries. I do not expect mankind will, before the millennium, be what they ought to be and therefore, in my opinion, every political theory which does not regard them as being what they are, will prove abortive. Yet I wish to see all unjust and unnecessary discriminations everywhere abolished, and that the time may come when all our inhabitants of every color and discrimination shall be free and equal partakers of our political liberties.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.