Quotes About Intoxication

But on the first day came veiled spirits from all hours into his soul... a soft intoxication, which the atmosphere of nature, like that of a wine-store, communicated to him, spread itself, like an enchanted solitude around his soul.

Quand je bois, cela rend les gens bavards.

He was on whatever combination of drugs makes you constantly lick your lips and ignore stoplights.

If there's one thing that's 100 percent true about every intoxicated person in world history, it's that you shouldn't believe them when they say they love you. The only difference between you and that slice of cold pizza back at their apartment is that they haven't met the pizza yet.

But the human soul isn't like the earth, the soul needs storm, and fire and dizziness. The body has time it moves slowly and prudently, step by step, in obedience to laws of gravity, but the soul brushes time and laws aside. It wants to push forward, regardless of the cost in pain, or intoxication, or even madness. That is the only way it has of raising itself to God.

Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.

Todo comienza cuando el objeto de tu adoración te da una dosis embriagadora y alucinógena de algo que jamás te habías atrevido a admitir que necesitabas —un cóctel tóxico-sentimental, quizá, de un amor estrepitoso y un entusiasmo arrebatador—.

Perhaps the wine had mingled with the blood in his veins, and now he was part grape.

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

Oh you're heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.

A defining characteristic of modern San Franciscans is our disinclination to judge fellow citizens based on their sexual habits or preferred methods of intoxication. About everything else, however, we are extra judge-y.

L'ebbrezza non si improvvisa. Rientra nel campo dell'arte, che esige talento e cura. Bere a caso non porta da nessuna parte. Se la prima sbornia il più delle volte ha del miracoloso, dipende unicamente dalla nota fortuna del principiante: situazione che, per definizione, non si ripeterà.

I down whatever's in the glass, though, because at this point I'd drink paint thinner out of a hobo's galoshes.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

everything in this case seemed crazy as three reefers and a quart of absinthe.

I watched the proceedings from across the room while Cleopatra babbled at me. She was pretty drunk. Finally, I got what she was burbling: "Wild Party." You know, the thing in verse about a party that's quite a ball itself. She must have spent a lot of lonely nights memorizing that one.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Or maybe he was seeing double. Bad stuff, gin. Should 'ave switched to rum a long time ago. Good stuff, rum. You could drink it, or take a bath in it. No, that was gin — he meant Joe.

It needs to be stated again and again that all opiates without exception are fundamentally depressants, so that the normal pattern, as dosage is increased, is from torpor to sleep to coma (ending in death, if there is an overdose).

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.