Intoxicant Quotes

#1. The sound of dogs howling from the next homestead over. But the space between our houses grows while I sleep. The forest around me deepens. The trees fall in love and multiply. The snow an intoxicant. I pray the pines don't get bolder, that they don't grow organs and hands.

Stuart Dybek

#2. The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Jonathan Darman

#4. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

#5. The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

William S. Burroughs

#6. 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.

Aldous Huxley

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

Andy Stanley

#8. That a starship could be built, that it could be propelled by laser beams, that humanity could reach the stars; this idea appeared to have been an intoxicant, to people around Saturn and on Earth in particular.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

Kedar Joshi

#10. Jude was the sickness I didn't want to be cured of. He was the intoxicant I never wanted to be clear of.

Nicole Williams

#11. Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying when they did, and how they did, represent the opening salvos of a social revolution in the nineties.

Marianne Williamson

#13. it also signified the coming of God's kingdom on earth. This

Richard Stearns

#14. It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. The syndicate was successful in including an officer and two other crew members in its plan. Sheikh employed old ways of enticing by wine, women and money to use them.

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#16. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

Jim Dodge

#17. Some things do not have to be said. You didn't have to tell me you were in love with Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. And I didn't have to tell you I cried myself to sleep for weeks after you left. Love speaks for itself.

Renee Ahdieh

#18. I wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option of being able to send back a circumstance that just doesn't suit you.

Jodi Picoult