In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power.
- Carroll O'ConnorYoung people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- AristotleThe wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
- Jacob BronowskiThe vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
- Alan VinegradThe day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
- Amy KempI have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
- Oscar WildeThere is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
- Andre MalrauxThe vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust
- Diogenes