Intoxicated Quotes

• Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ideas, Romance, Mind

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Men Without Women”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

  Kate Chopin

  Wine, Voice, Sound

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48

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• … that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.

  Amos Oz

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

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• She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn’t had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he’d never thought to feel again.

  Julia Quinn

  Rain, Years, Heaven

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• Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

  Jeet Thayil

  Real, Drama, Addiction

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• Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Self, Rooms, Needs

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• It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Compliment

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

  Traci Lords

  Fighting, Feels, Bites

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• My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feet, Atmosphere, Desire

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

  Kabir

  Love, Heart, Wish

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• Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Air, Doe, Breathe

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Alcohol, Call Me

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• I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.

  William Coperthwaite

  People, Joy, Want

  William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.116, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Being In Love, Voice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.452, St. Martin's Press

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• O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
  The golden time of first love!
  The eye sees the open heaven,
  The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
  O that the beautiful time of young love
  Could remain green forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Sweet

  "The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.

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• Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Years, Relief

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 12

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• We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Humility, Heart

  "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

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• We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.

  Sylvia Day

  Determination, Fighting, Perfection

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.292, Penguin

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• We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

  Andre Derain

  Color, Sun, Speak

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• A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Needs

  W. C. Fields, Ronald J. Fields (1973). “W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography”, Prentice Hall

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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• Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  Rene Dubos

  New York, Technology, Men

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• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

  Robert McNamara

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

  Calvin Miller

  Religious, Flames, Addiction

  Calvin Miller (2010). “Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir”, p.227, Thomas Nelson Inc

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