Quotes About Intoxication

have been intoxicated more than once, my passions have never been far off insanity, and I have no regrets: because I have come to realize, in my own way, that people have always felt a need to decry the extraordinary men who accomplish great things, things that seemed impossible, as intoxicated and insane

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

What is God drunk on? Your love.

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

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Intoxication is an antidote to cognitive control, a way to temporarily hamstring that opponent to creativity, cultural openness, and communal bonding.

awakening' drinkers to their optimum creative moments…to be intoxicated is to be inspired."10 It is not uncommon for ancient Chinese poets to have entire series of poems under the rubric, "Written While Drunk," including this one from the Zhang Yue (667 to 730): Once drunk, my delight knows no limits— Even better than before I'm drunk. My movements, my expressions, all turn into dance, And every word out of my mouth turns into a poem!11

The British anthropologist Robin Dunbar represents one exception to the otherwise typical neglect of intoxication. Dunbar and his colleagues see the physiological effects of alcohol, in particular, as a crucial component in social rituals. Specifically, they point to the endorphin release triggered by booze, especially when drinking is combined with music, dance, and ritual, as a crucial factor allowing humans to cooperate on a scale unattainable by our monkey or ape relatives.

We also have to reevaluate the historic benefits of intoxication, at both the individual and group level, in light of the unprecedented threats that intoxicants pose in the modern world. The relatively recent innovations of distillation and social isolation entirely change intoxicants' balance on the razor's edge between order and chaos, creating novel dangers that we only dimly appreciate.

My central argument is that getting drunk, high, or otherwise cognitively

something had begun to emanate from Lila's mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

A wine withdraws not worries but wisdom from the mind of the drunkard person.

The effect of women on a man's mind is same as that of wine because both stops the function of his brain.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.