Delirium famous quotes

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

#People #Earth #Delirium

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

#Bipolar #Delirium #Type

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

#Choices #Democracy #Delirium

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

#Men #Want #Delirium

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

#Slumber #Delirium #Lost

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
-- Gilles Deleuze

#Lying #Delirium #Reason

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..
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Melting #Delirium #Ecstasy

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
-- Leslie Stephen

#Hawthorne #Kind #Delirium

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Laughter #Grief #Delirium

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

#People #Delirium #Restraint

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

#Drunk #Genius #Delirium

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

#Records #Delirium #Form

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?
-- Vladimir Mayakovsky

#Night #Delirium #Bigs

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!
-- Gabriel Faure

#Cry #Delirium #Wagner