Delirium Quotes - Page 2

• The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Normal, Excess, Size

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Home, Bed

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Indifference, Said

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• Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Fragile Things, Careful

  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.14, Harper Collins

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• The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Weight, Stones

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.

  Henri Michaux

  Bird, Tree, Doe

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• I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Order, Path

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Men

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

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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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• 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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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nature, Roots, Profound

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

  Salvador Dali

  Reality, World, Planes

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking

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• For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, People, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

  John Forbes Nash

  Math, Suffering, Doubt

  Statement of 1996, as quoted in "Dr. Riemann's Zeros" by Karl Sabbagh, (p. 88), 2003.

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Book, Taken

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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