Quotes by Intoxication Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. Alphonse de Lamartine earnestness intoxication enthusiasm an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. Anne Rice intoxication forbidden natural Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. Douglas William Jerrold epitome intoxication crime For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche intoxication drinking art Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Gilbert K. Chesterton champagne intoxication invisible Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. Jim Harrison intoxication language Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. Mahatma Gandhi intoxication excitement together Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication. Maya Angelou intoxication causes power The only proper intoxication is conversation. Oscar Wilde drunkenness intoxication conversation 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. Rainer Maria Rilke intoxication joy blood