Emotional Intoxication Quotes

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one with the other person, merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.