#intoxication

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drinking #intoxication #partying #beauty

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. ↗

— John Milton

#intoxication #dreams

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#drugs #drunkenness #intoxication-and-sobriety #men

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

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

— John Dryden

#grape #hides #intoxication #like #others

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ↗

— Aristotle

#permanently #resembling #state #young

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

— Andre Malraux

#china #intoxication #islam #need #opium

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #any #art #certain #exist