"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius……" — Antonin Artaud

More Delirium Quotes

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• Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. — Thomas Carlyle
• Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are… — Italo Svevo
• Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher,… — Unknown Author
• When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell… — Kim Stanley
• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. — Emile M. Cioran
• Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood… — William Butler Yeats
• Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've… — Tori Amos
• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of… — Jean Dubuffet
• A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium. — Aretaeus of Cappadocia
• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth… — Henry David Thoreau
• The bird's delirium does not interest the trees. — Henri Michaux
• Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg

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