Quotes about Intoxication

It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

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.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

As the new alcohol tumbled into his stomach and warmed him, the isolated pictures began slowly to form a cinema reel of the day before.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

Like the best wine… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Drunk driving is a killer disease.