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Intoxication Quotes

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Jim Harrison
Language, Intoxication
Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Drinking, Intoxication

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Blood, Joy, Intoxication
"Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter Nine (4 November 1904), 1934.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Douglas William Jerrold
Crime, Epitome, Intoxication
Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.41

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Enthusiasm, Intoxication, Earnestness

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Maya Angelou
Power, Causes, Intoxication
Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.1030, Modern Library

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Oscar Wilde
Conversation, Intoxication, Drunkenness
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

Mahatma Gandhi
Together, Excitement, Intoxication
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Invisible, Champagne, Intoxication

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Anne Rice
Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden
Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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