logo

Quotes About Delirium

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
~ Philip Guston
On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium. - Heads in the Women's Ward
~ Philip Larkin
Nicolás Maduro empieza a padecer un delirio no exento de lapsus cómicos cada vez que se acerca el micrófono a la boca
~ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.
~ Donna Tartt
They were all laughing at me, even Shirley Temple, the whole world was laughter bouncing fractal and metallic off the tiled walls, delirium and phantasmagorica, a sense of the world growing and swelling like some fabulous blown balloon floating and billowing away to the stars, and I was laughing too and I wasn't even sure what I was laughing at since I was still so shaken I was trembling all over.
~ Donna Tartt
a drve?e je ispred na cesti cvalo bijelim praskovima delirija.
~ Donna Tartt
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If you asked Neil today, he would tell you his furlough was in 3-D: dates, delirium, and disaster. I provided the dates, the Greenville girls provided the delirium, and Allie, well, she provided the disaster.
~ Ray Blackston
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 life spread out before them.
~ Italo Svevo
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
~ Philip Guston
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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 from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, -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. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by life's delirium. It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.
~ Kate Chopin
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. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
~ Jean Baudrillard
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! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
~ Jean Dubuffet
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This was madness; this was delirium.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door across the ceiling. People are walking about by lamplight. Something has happened. The strip moves faster and faster and the dark walls move further and further apart, into infinity. This room is London and there are thousands of doors. The lamps dart about and the strips dart across the ceiling. And perhaps it is all delirium ...
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
An incurable soul! You poor thing! I-330 burst out laughing. And her laughter splashed all over me, the whole delirium passed, and little sequins of laughter were flashing and how ... how wonderful it all was.
~ Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Dois dias é muito para quem viveu de água fria e maus pensamentos. Nelly para Catherine, quando Catherine delirara durante dias.
~ Emily Bronte
The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
~ Margaret Atwood