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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'd rather die my way than live yours.

  Lauren Oliver

  Strong, Women, Independent

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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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• If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Passion, Love Is

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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, Delirium Tremens, People

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• Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Knowing Everything, Not Knowing, Sometimes

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• I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Color, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

  Lauren Oliver

  Happiness, Bad Day, Happy Times

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.24, Harper Collins

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Delirium Tremens, Common

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ice Cream, Flavor, Green

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• This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kissing, Want, Moments

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Names, Long

  "Sandman: Brief Lives: 3". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

  Lauren Oliver

  World

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.231, Hachette UK

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