71 Quotes About Intoxication

Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits gilds everything you see, even the ugliest and most revolting person becomes attractive in some way, it is as if all objections and all judgments are cast aside in a wide sweep of the hand, in an act of supreme generosity, here everything, and I do mean everything, is beautiful.

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.

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

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

Medieval Muslim society...labeled as intoxicated anyone “whose orderly speech is confused and who spills his hidden secret...

But since when has a lust-intoxicated man thought about the feelings of others?

Shaking my head, I grinned in my defiance, and the room and the whole world became soft and buzzing, lights dangerously unfocused. Our shadows intermingled, a Chagall on the pale wood floor. My thoughts sudden and intriguing, like a rainbow you see for only a second—

He sat down by his table and began to think things out. He told himself he was not drunk at all, but that he had taken an unusual amount of whisky, which seemed to produce much the same effect as intoxication.