Intoxication Quotes

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

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

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

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.

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

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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

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