Delirium Quotes

• 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

  Melting, Ecstasy, Feels

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• Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Lying, Reason

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974”, Semiotext

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• Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Years, Hundred

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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, Delirium Tremens

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

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• I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fighting, Matter, Refuse

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Delirium Tremens, Undone, Ennui

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

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• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Mad

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

  Samuel Beckett

  Records, Form, Feels

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.250, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

  Salvador Dali

  Reality, World, Planes

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• The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, Harper Collins

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Fall

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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, Delirium Tremens, Apathy

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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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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

  Lauren Oliver

  Alex, Term, My Own

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• Love: It will kill you and save you, both

  Lauren Oliver

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.273, Hachette UK

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• To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Reality, Want, Hell

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• It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want Something, Waiting, Forever

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Time, Forever, Watches

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• The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

  Lauren Oliver

  Bigger, Single Word, Edges

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• I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Remember, Alex Sheathes

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Book, Garden

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1992 - 1993.

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• It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

  Lauren Oliver

  Care, Kill Me, I Don't Care

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