Illusions Delusions Quotes

#1. We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

William Golding

#2. I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

John Frankenheimer

#3. A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

Gordon Lightfoot

#4. I don't know anybody else who lives 1,000 miles away from their job and gets to commute back and forth. The owner said, 'You can live in your beloved Swifton, but don't you dare miss a game.' I had a few close calls, but I didn't miss any.

George Kell

#5. Insofar as I liked doing things by myself, it was partly for the pleasure of telling her about them afterwards.

Julian Barnes

#6. In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

John William Draper

#8. Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

Pierre Charron

#10. A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

Zig Ziglar

#11. If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

Amor Towles

#12. All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

Action Bronson

#13. He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey

Francine Rivers

#14. Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

Steven Erikson

#15. It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

Bernard Darwin

#16. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. I have never read a book that didn't in some way impact my life

Jenny

#18. I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Christopher Hitchens

#19. There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Terence McKenna

#20. And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.

Robin Constantine

#21. Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Eugene Ionesco