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Quotes About Intoxication

Era la vertigine. L'ottenebrante, irresistibile desiderio di cadere. La vertigine potremmo anche chiamarla ebbrezza della debolezza. Ci si rende conto della propria debolezza e invece di resisterle, ci si vuole abbandonare a essa. Ci si ubriaca della propria debolezza, si vuole essere ancor più deboli, si vuole cadere in mezzo alla strada, davanti a tutti, si vuole stare in basso, ancora più in basso.
~ Milan Kundera
We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it.
~ Milan Kundera
È™i Baudelaire scrie: "Trebuie s? fim veÈ™nic beÈ›i... de vin, de poezie sau de virtuÈ›i pe placul nostru..." Lirismul e o stare de beÈ›ie, È™i omul se îmbat? pentru a se contopi mai uÈ™or cu universul.
~ Milan Kundera
The moment she removed his head from the body, she felt the strange and intoxicating touch of freedom. That anonymity of the body was a suddenly discovered paradise. With an odd delight, she expelled her wounded and too vigilant soul and was transformed into a simple body without past or memory, but all the more eager and receptive. She tenderly caressed Eva's face, while the headless body moved vigorously on top of her.
~ Milan Kundera
For Franz music was the art that came closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication.
~ Milan Kundera
The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
~ Rajneesh
'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.
~ Beyonce Knowles
In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.
~ Brian D. McLaren
Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.
~ Tennessee Williams
She shook her head with a sigh. "You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed." She
~ Terry Goodkind
drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
~ Terry Pratchett
We are all raccoon-drunk on moonlight and bloodshed and the heady, underblossom smell of the forest.
~ Karen Russell
Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul.
~ Gerard de Nerval
Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
~ Gerard de Nerval
?övalyelerin ve ?sa'n?n güzel ülkelerini tan?mak nasip olmay?nca, böyle lügat y???nlar? aras?nda yürümek ?u ana kadar bu gezegende tan?d???m en sarho? edici ?ey.
~ Gaétan Soucy
For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
an aggressively male cologne, a roofie of a cologne.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
for now I'm just throwing it out there and asking you to at least consider that romantic attraction, as wonderful and as emotionally intoxicating as it can be, can actually lead you astray as much as it can help you. I'm not talking it down; "connecting" with someone on that level is a wonderful thing. Enjoy it, revel in it, even write a song about it if you want, but don't bet your life on it.
~ Gary L. Thomas
After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.
~ Brian Azzarello
but we were both pretty drunk, so we figured we'd leave before we threw up. I dropped her off here.
~ Brian Freeman
Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
~ Brillat Savarin
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.
~ Brion Gysin
El alcohol desinhibe, reduce el autocontrol e incrementa la impulsividad.
~ Bruce D. Perry