Delirium Quotes
77 quotes by 54 authors
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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…
— Antonin Artaud
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Italo Svevo
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to…
— Jim Lonborg
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last…
— Kim Stanley
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
— William Butler Yeats
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Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think…
— Tori Amos
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia!…
— Jean Dubuffet
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A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
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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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
— B. W. Powe
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We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
— Edward Abbey
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one…
— Eric Stoltz
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer…
— John Forbes Nash
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History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It…
— Paul Valery
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