Quotessence
Home / Topics / Intoxication Quotes

Intoxication Quotes

Browse 183 quotes about Intoxication.

Related topics

IfsMenArtGivingJoyAlcoholEcstasyMeanMindSelfStatesThinkingWine

Intoxication Quotes

“Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.”

GivingLooksSelfMomentsInspirationFaithLove IsJourneyEternalDiscoveryChristian InspirationalSelf DiscoveryLiberationEcstasyInwardAuthentic SelfIntoxicationEternal LoveExodusSelf Giving
Author:Pope Benedict XVI
Create image

“Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.”

MomentsHeavenLove IsAttentionProduceTearsSolitudeCastsVarietySuspectsEcstasySublimeRivalsFatigueTransportRaptureIntoxicationPhysiologyArdorGlandsSublimity
Book:A short history of decay
Create image

“"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."”

WritingMeanImportantBookHumanityConsciousnessProgressEternalFunctionHistoricalAidsContinuingEvidentIntoxication
Author:Hermann Hesse
Create image

“There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”

MenMeanLittlesLongArtReasonLaughingDegreesHighestArt IsMadBurningBoresIntoxicationDementiaDeliriumMake You Laugh
Book:Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition
Create image

“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”

MenWorldMindDreamAgePastImaginationHalfHugeBrokenStonesBasesImpactMythRuinsFantasticMelancholyLegendsEpisodesTowersAmazedMysticalSoarWorld HistoryStretchingHeirsStunningTangledIntoxicationFactualAscendancyLegends And Myths
Book:Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins
Create image

“Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained.”

WayPersonsIndividualGivenAbilitySituationRelationshipSocietyFashionProductsConsequenceRelationPrioritiesLife ChangingAgencyLiberalismIndividualismSustainabilitySociologyMaking ChangesFormationIdeologicalIntoxicationCatchySocial Interaction
Author:Talal Asad
Create image

“Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.”

ThinkingNeedsLittlesSometimesPurposeBornTeachingInspireDrinkWineDeeperAlcoholInvisibleDrunkBeerPermanentDelicateSoberAlcoholismChampagneIntoxication
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.”

ShouldMindLittlesCareLibertyOughtHabitDrinkDrawsWineDrinkingDepthAlcoholReleaseOccasionsDullContractsLowestModerationIndulgeSobrietyBad HabitsIntoxicationElation
Author:Seneca the Younger
Create image

“Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.”

ThinkingFeelsDivineBrokenEternalMy FriendsEmptyWineLipsCupsEveningYieldFlavorVowCelestialIntoxicationBurstingEternal Love
Book:The Confession of a Child of the Century
Create image