quotes about Delirium
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
-- Antonin Artaud -
A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia -
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
-- B. W. PoweSource : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
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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 -
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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 -
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
-- Gilles DeleuzeSource : Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974”, Semiotext
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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 -
Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
-- Leslie StephenSource : Sir Leslie Stephen (1875). “Hours in a Library”, p.227
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Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
-- Lidia Yuknavitch -
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.
-- Samael Aun Weor -
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
-- Samuel Beckett -
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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 -
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