Quotes About Delirium

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

Lyra was so tired, she felt on the verge of delirium. She wanted to sleep quite desperately, but she knew that if she gave in and put her head down, she wouldn't wake up till the morning was filling the sky.

My nates offer everlastingly the lugubrious spectacle of tumescence; no one can claim (and how many have drawn near!) that he has seen them in a state of normal quiescence, not even the shoe shine boy who attacked me with a knife during a moment of delirium. Ungrateful wretch!

She is in full delirium. But delirium is the antithesis of death; it is the body's struggle to survive. ("Jane Brown's Body")

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

The spell is broke; the charm is flown! Thus is it with life's fitful fever: We madly smile when we should groan: Delirium is our best deceiver. Each lucid interval of thought Recalls the woes of Nature's charter; And he that acts as wise men ought, But lives, as saints have died, a martyr.

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

The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us. All delirium is expansive. All impulses escape stereotyping.

All those years I'd drifted along too glassy and insulated for any kind of reality to push through: a delirium which had spun me along on its slow, relaxed wave since childhood, high and lying on the shag carpet in Vegas laughing at the ceiling fan, only I wasn't laughing any more, Rip van Winkle wincing and holding his head on the ground about a hundred years too late.

Hoy las pulgas de la peste negra se han refugiado en las costuras de la Red, cuyos enlaces expanden una imbecilidad planetaria con fiebre y delirios en la mayoría de los usuarios, que no cesan de llenar de vómitos todo el espacio.

in her delirium, she had thought of the word 'equidistant'. A word that belonged in the clinical safety of a classroom. Equidistant. Such a neutral, mathematical kind of word, and one that became a stuck thought, repeating itself like a manic meditation as she used the last of her strength to stay almost exactly where she was. Equidistant. Equidistant. Equidistant. Not aligned to one bank or the other. That was how she had felt most of her life.

Mi cuerpo tensado hasta el delirio Espera como una llamarada Un devenir, un chasquido; Por la noche me entreno para morir.

What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.

In his deathbed delirium, Jackson had cried out, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action . . . Pass the infantry to the front." These laurels were richly deserved, for Hill was inseparable from Jackson's string of victories. He effected a system of command and discipline within his division which made it a model within the Army of Northern Virginia. His emphasis on speed led it to become known as the "Light Division," despite its large size (six brigades).