Delirium Tremens Quotes

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.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

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

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

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

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