Delirium Tremens Quotations

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.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

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

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

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.