All 50 Uses of
delirium
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- it's simply the weakness of fever, a moment's delirium,
Chpt 2.1 *delirium = state of mental confusion
- He was in a sort of delirium.†
Chpt 1.7
- Mechanically he drew from a chair beside him his old student's winter coat, which was still warm though almost in rags, covered himself up with it and once more sank into drowsiness and delirium.†
Chpt 2.1
- So he had decided in the night of his delirium when several times he had had the impulse to get up and go away, to make haste, and get rid of it all.†
Chpt 2.2
- And that half-hour he had lost over an irrational plan, simply because he had thought of it in delirium!†
Chpt 2.2
- You are delirious, you know!†
Chpt 2.2
- He was not completely unconscious, however, all the time he was ill; he was in a feverish state, sometimes delirious, sometimes half conscious.†
Chpt 2.3
- Was it you I did not recognise when I was delirious?†
Chpt 2.3
- Did I say anything in delirium?†
Chpt 2.3
- Am I still in delirium, or is it real?†
Chpt 2.3
- Rodya has been ill for the last five days and delirious for three, but now he is recovering and has got an appetite.†
Chpt 2.5
- Strange to say, he seemed immediately to have become perfectly calm; not a trace of his recent delirium nor of the panic fear that had haunted him of late.†
Chpt 2.6
- I can't help thinking you are still delirious.†
Chpt 2.6
- I am delirious?†
Chpt 2.6
- They were beside themselves with alarm when they heard of his "running away" to-day, ill and, as they understood from her story, delirious!†
Chpt 2.7
- You think I am delirious?†
Chpt 3.1
- "Do you hear, sister," he repeated after them, making a last effort, "I am not delirious; this marriage is—an infamy.†
Chpt 3.1
- On Pulcheria Alexandrovna's anxiously and timidly inquiring as to "some suspicion of insanity," he replied with a composed and candid smile that his words had been exaggerated; that certainly the patient had some fixed idea, something approaching a monomania—he, Zossimov, was now particularly studying this interesting branch of medicine—but that it must be recollected that until to-day the patient had been in delirium and...and that no doubt the presence of his family would have a favourable effect on his recovery and distract his mind, "if only all fresh shocks can be avoided," he added significantly.†
Chpt 3.1
- But if you notice anything—delirium or fever—wake me at once.†
Chpt 3.1
- She told us at once that you were lying in a high fever and had just run away from the doctor in delirium, and they were looking for you in the streets.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was when I was wandering about yesterday, rather delirious, I chanced upon a man who had been run over...a clerk...†
Chpt 3.3
- Delirious?†
Chpt 3.3
- Yes, it was a sort of spring delirium.†
Chpt 3.3
- "No, it was not only spring delirium," said Dounia, with warm feeling.†
Chpt 3.3
- I've not more than a silver rouble left...after last night's accursed delirium!†
Chpt 3.4
- He laid special emphasis on the delirium.†
Chpt 3.4
- Then that's why you...were stuck...partly...you know in your delirium you were continually mentioning some rings or chains!†
Chpt 3.4
- Here this man will go to the stake for me, and I find him delighted at having it cleared up why I spoke of rings in my delirium!†
Chpt 3.4
- He was unconscious and delirious all yesterday.†
Chpt 3.5
- Would you believe, Porfiry, as soon as our backs were turned, he dressed, though he could hardly stand, and gave us the slip and went off on a spree somewhere till midnight, delirious all the time!†
Chpt 3.5
- Really delirious?†
Chpt 3.5
- But how could you have gone out if you hadn't been delirious?†
Chpt 3.5
- I say, Mr. Zametov, was I sensible or delirious yesterday; settle our dispute.†
Chpt 3.5
- When I said that I ran away to take a flat he let it pass....I put that in cleverly about a flat, it may be of use afterwards....Delirious, indeed...ha-ha-ha!†
Chpt 3.5
- The flat even isn't a fact but delirium.†
Chpt 3.5
- Simply because a poor student, unhinged by poverty and hypochondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their insolence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U. presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty degrees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before, and all that on an empty stomach—he might well have a fainting fit!†
Chpt 3.6
- That's just what I might do....She must be the same as I am," he added, straining himself to think, as it were struggling with delirium.†
Chpt 3.6
- Sonia spent the whole night feverish and delirious.†
Chpt 4.4
- Why, my dear fellow, you may drive yourself into delirium if you have the impulse to work upon your nerves, to go ringing bells at night and asking about blood!†
Chpt 4.5
- You were delirious when you did all this!†
Chpt 4.5
- I was not delirious.†
Chpt 4.5
- You said yesterday you were not delirious, you were particularly emphatic about it!†
Chpt 4.5
- If you were actually a criminal, or were somehow mixed up in this damnable business, would you insist that you were not delirious but in full possession of your faculties?†
Chpt 4.5
- If you had anything on your conscience, you certainly ought to insist that you were delirious.†
Chpt 4.5
- Prompting you and giving you every means for your defence; illness, I said, delirium, injury, melancholy and the police officers and all the rest of it?†
Chpt 4.5
- Though, indeed, all those psychological means of defence are not very reliable and cut both ways: illness, delirium, I don't remember—that's all right, but why, my good sir, in your illness and in your delirium were you haunted by just those delusions and not by any others?†
Chpt 4.5
- Though, indeed, all those psychological means of defence are not very reliable and cut both ways: illness, delirium, I don't remember—that's all right, but why, my good sir, in your illness and in your delirium were you haunted by just those delusions and not by any others?†
Chpt 4.5
- So Porfiry, too, had nothing but that delirium, no facts but this psychology which cuts both ways, nothing positive.†
Chpt 4.6
- It really is nonsense, if you think of it," he muttered, like a man in delirium.†
Chpt 5.4
- He was almost delirious; an uneasy smile strayed on his lips.†
Chpt 5.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(delirium as in: fever induced delirium) a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinationsDelirium can result from high fever, intoxication, withdrawal, brain injury, and many other causes.
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(2)
(delirium as in: delirious with joy) a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion