Intoxication Quotations

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

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

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

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

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

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

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.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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.

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

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.