Quotes About Intoxication

Because if you're drunk on sex and love, then I'm fucking wasted.

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith—no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. —OMAR KHAYYAM

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk.

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.

A részeg ember aljasabb, mint akármelyik gonosztevÅ'. A tolvaj, ha éppen nem lop, olyan ember, mint mindenki más. A zsaroló legalább otthon nem folytatja mesterségét. A gyilkos megmossa kezét, amikor hazatér. De milyen a részeg ember? Büdös, és berókáz a saját ágyába, és a szeszben eláznak a legfontosabb szervei.

To drink is nothing. It's important to be drunk.

I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me. I would always have it.

We liken the passion of the beginning to adolescent intoxication—both transient and unrealistic. The consolation for giving it up is the security that waits on the other side. Yet when we trade passion for stability, are we not merely swapping one fantasy for another? As Stephen Mitchell points out, the fantasy of permanence may trump the fantasy of passion, but both are products of our imagination.

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.

I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever.

Literature was a form of intoxication, and many nights he read and wrote in his tower room till the cigarette butts littered the ash trays -- then wandered up to Nassau Street through the darkened campus for string potatoes and milk at Joe's.

The first toasts were being raised, and already becoming less and less coherent.

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

You low-down land-sharks," I roared. "You doped my grog!

I'm so full of drugs I cant feel anything but I know I love you. I wonder how much they'd have to give me before that went too. Engouh to kill me I suppose.

There were several pictures of Lula with Evan Duffield, a few of them clearly taken by one or other of the pair themselves, holding the camera at arm's length, both of them apparently stoned or drunk.

Alcohol buoyed you up and it washed your eyes clean.

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

Se me llenaron los ojos de lágrimas beodas