Delirium Quotes

Delirium Quote of the day

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.

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

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?

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

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.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

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

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

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

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

"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

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

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

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah!

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.