Quotes of Delirium - somelinesforyou

“ Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. ”

- Don Quixote

“ The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ”

- Otto Weininger

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Cyril Connolly

“ 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

“ Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“ Love that is not madness is not love. ”

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“ Too much sanity may be madness. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“ We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ That way madness lies. ”

- William Shakespeare
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