Top 8 Delirium Tremens Quotes

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.

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.

Antonin Artaud

Depression, Ideas, Delirium Tremens

"Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Emile M. Cioran

Delirium Tremens, Delirium, Undone

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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.

Kate Chopin

Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow