Delirium Tremens Quotes

• Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

  Leslie Stephen

  Hawthorne, Kind, Delirium

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1875). “Hours in a Library”, p.227

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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

  Men, Want, Delirium

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• I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

  Philip Guston

  Morning, Creativity, Night

  Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

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• 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.

  Antonin Artaud

  Depression, Ideas, People

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Delirium, Undone, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Reality, People, Restraint

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Class, Apathy, Literature

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Common, Famous Love

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• 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.

  Kate Chopin

  Soul, Contentment, Taste

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

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

  Samael Aun Weor

  Drunk, Genius, Symptoms

  Samael Aun Weor (2010). “The Great Rebellion: The State of Our World and How to Change It Through Practical Spirituality”, p.72, Glorian Publishing

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• God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Spiritual, Jesus, Men

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• Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.

  Eric Stoltz

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Writing

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.27, Knopf

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