Delirium Quotes

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

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!

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.

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?

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 prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

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.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

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

Love: It will kill you and save you, both

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

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

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.