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Quotes About Intoxication

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.
~ Rumi
My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.
~ Anacreon
They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.
~ Jordan Belfort
But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.
~ Jordan Belfort
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
~ Joseph Conrad
Alright, good night," he said, his words a little slurred. "But before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.
~ Erin McCarthy
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
~ Eugene O'Neill
This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
~ Jack Herer
The men of the Foreign Legion bring their own worlds with them from their own places; their only common ground is intoxication.
~ benson stella iii
She and Amma have only polished off two bottles of red and the rest of the coke, which pleasantly counteracted the inebriation game effect of the drink Best of both worlds, drink as much as you like and remain coherent enough for a good chinwag
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Het geluk is daar waar men niet is, behalve met wat drank op
~ Bernlef
They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.
~ Bill Hicks
not all drugs are good.. some of them are great
~ Bill Hicks
When anger takes over, it acts with uncontrollable rage. We say things, feel things, and do things way out of proportion. Anger is emotional drunkenness.
~ Bill Pittman
Before her marriage, she had believed that what she was experiencing was love; but since the happiness that should have resulted from that love had not come, she thought she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out just what was meant, in life, by the words bliss, passion, and intoxication, which had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Et Emma cherchait à savoir ce que l'on entendait au juste dans la vie par les mots de félicité, de passion et d'ivresse, qui lui avaient paru si beaux dans les livres.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Je m'ennuie – Je voudrais être crevé, être ivre, ou être Dieu pour faire des farces. Et merde.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Did you ever sleep in a field of orange-trees in bloom? The air which one inhales deliciously is a quintessence of perfumes. This powerful and sweet smell, as savoury as a sweetmeat, seems to penetrate one, to impregnate, to intoxicate, to induce languor, to bring about a dreamy and somnolent torpor. It is like opium prepared by fairy hands and not by chemists.
~ Guy de Maupassant
perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to those two dead souls, brought to life in a second, the rapid and divine sensation of this intoxication, of this madness which gives to lovers more happiness in an instant than other men can gather during a whole lifetime.
~ Guy de Maupassant
She danced with rapture, with passion, intoxicated by pleasure, forgetting all in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness comprised of all this homage, admiration, these awakened desires and of that sense of triumph which is so sweet to woman's heart.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The air of Paris is quite different from any other. There's something about it which thrills and excites and intoxicates you, and in some strange way makes you want to dance and do all sorts of other silly things. As soon as I get out of the train, it's just as if I had drunk a bottle of champagne. What a time one could have surrounded by artists! How happy those lucky people must be, the great men who have made a name in a city like Paris! What a wonderful life they have!
~ Guy de Maupassant
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
~ H.L. Mencken
Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up, and look across the gardens, lawns, greenhouses, sheds and curtained windows. I wanted my life to begin now, at this instant, just when I was ready for it.
~ Hanif Kureishi