Partying Quotes

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.”
― Jess C. Scott, Sven

“There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.”
― Roman Payne, Crepuscule

“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…”
"What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?”
“Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party.”
― John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

“I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.”
― Stephanie Clifford, Everybody Rise

“I can't get myself to stay; I cannot enjoy the crowd,
But I hate that I hate it because I wish I could let go.
I'm all alone in this corner and their laughter is loud.
Well that's okay, I think I'll just go home.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“At least at parties everybody knows somebody, there’s a semblance of vetting and community, friendship.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Because of things such as drugs and alcohol, countless people, most of whom are female, do not know that they were once raped, many of them more than once.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I hope you like social awkwardness, because that's all I'm bringing to the party.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Cassandra wanted the same night over and over again but she believed in some hidden way that if she had the same night enough times it would all crack open, and something better than love would be revealed. Something better than music.”
― Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

“The party sounds a lot more fun from the outside than in, like most parties.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The party is almost over.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I live my Life like The Roarin' 20's in the 2020's”
― Kevin Kolenda

“What are we waiting for mate
Let's wake the place
Cause it's all a bit late
And were all in a bit of a state”
― Mike Skinner

“He suspected that copious amounts of alcohol were required for fun because it was the cheapest and most readily-available ancient form of self-medication for social anxiety rather than a true joy derived from drinking. Either that, or it was a passive and inefficient quest for self-termination via liver damage among his adolescent peers. Otherwise, was there really a point to large groups of people gathering to get drunk with no common goal?”
― Celyn Kendrick, Green Hills and Daffodils

“Aftershock by Stewart Stafford

Sitting by myself at the firepit,
The dregs of last night's inferno,
Still charcoal from vibrant flame,
Charred bones of the festivities.

Dropped food and empty bottles,
A littering ring, now seen in light,
The laughs and drunken banter,
Distant echoes that bring smiles.

Head throbs, chill morning breeze,
Take two pills and zip up my jacket,
Post-party blues gripping onto me,
Happiness, revisit on swiftest wings!

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I spent the day stripping the purple out of my hair and redyeing it—Manic Panic Electric Tiger Lily. The jar promised it would glow under a black light, but somehow I didn’t think the grange hall was going to turn the lights off and get funky.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Catch fun, but remember to catch goals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I was finding that sweet spot of balance and moderation. Maybe, at some point, the drugs and partying would be gone, and I’d just be a successful student, employee, and citizen. It seemed to me that the two most common paths for finding meaning in life were partying or prosperity, and I was excelling at both.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Whenever they grounded me, I would sneak out the windows. Whenever they took my keys, I would arrange a ride with friends. Whenever they took my phone, I would use the house phone. Whenever they restricted me, I would leave and not come home for days at a time. Whenever they tightened their grip, I would get a job and go to wrestling tournaments, finding every legitimate excuse to get out of the house, evade responsibility, and keep partying. I was completely uncooperative and manipulated everything in my favor.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“In the eyes of most, I was winning at the life of partying, so I could see what most didn't see: it was empty. I kept thinking if a little feels good, more will feel better, but I was wrong. It was a lie. It was only once I’d attained everything this life could offer that I could see clearly what a lie it really was. The best this life had to offer was a slew of broken relationships, mangled trust, a compromised future, destructive habits, friends who used you, people who only wanted you for what you had to offer, and an empty hole that no matter how much you threw down it, it hungered all the more.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“We all give away our goods to soon...
And we're waiting for something to say, instead of listening”
― Raccoon, Took A Hit

“Peanut shells are not debris, but merely the byproduct of too much revelry...”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Ma io penso ancora che in certi momenti quegli anni di festa a oltranza siano stati un atto provocatorio, celebrativo e potente; il rifiuto di usare il mio corpo nel modo che ci si aspettava da me. In molti casi si trattava di divertirci alle nostre condizioni: [...]
Alcuni dei ricordi che conservo sono allegri, alcuni tristi, ma era questa la realtà. A volte ballavo fino all’alba col sorriso stampato in faccia insieme alla mia cerchia di amiche intime, altre volte mentre correvo sotto la pioggia per prendere l’ultimo autobus collassavo in strada e restavo stesa sull’asfalto bagnato più a lungo di quanto avrei dovuto. A volte andavo giù dritta sbattendo contro un lampione e mi rimaneva il mento viola per giorni.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“too late for discretion, too early for breakfast”
― Anthony Tao, We Met in Beijing