Zaha Hadid

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

British Architect

Eric Stoltz

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.

American Actor

Zach Galifianakis

You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

Floyd Skloot

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

American Poet

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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.

American Mathematician

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

French Writer

Cyril Connolly

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

English Journalist

Philip Guston

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

American Artist

Margaret Atwood

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

Canadian Novelist

Emil Cioran

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Romanian Philosopher

Used in hospitals or by medical professionals when describing a patient's condition.

Medical Condition

Delirium usually refers to a temporary condition, not a permanent mental illness.

Temporary State

Delirium often signals a serious health issue, especially in elderly patients.

Severity Indicator

Often used to describe collective excitement in a crowd or group setting.

Group Emotion

Signifies an overpowering feeling of joy, beyond just being happy or pleased.

Overwhelming Joy

Commonly used to describe fans' reactions during significant sporting events.

Sporting Events

 and while I was out there floating, I started to get a little bit nervous. Actually, I was totally freaking out -- -- and I was borderline hypothermic, and my friends eventually had to help me out of the water. And I don't know if it was delirium setting in or what,

Chris Burkard: The joy...

 Not knowing what else to do, they cut open the welt. A turtle emerged from the wound and swam away, alternating easily between sea and land as she went. When Deminan recovered from his delirium,

The Taino myth of the...

 in frenzied scent marking finally the civets delirium pushes the poor Pangolin downward into the water as the civet watches helplessly the Pangolin swims away