Delirium Quotes

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so big and by no one needed?

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Love: It will kill you and save you, both

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.