Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
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.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
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.
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.
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.
