Quotes About Delusional

#1. If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Jason Calacanis

#2. I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

Sonakshi Sinha

#3. Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Dean Kamen

#4. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Anne Lamott

#5. You're delusional to think that I could ever love someone as damaged as you. Hell, no one could.

Nina D'Angelo

#6. But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent principles. They may do so; but they may also wish to build death camps, and may very well choose to do that instead. For

David Bentley Hart

#7. Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

Jack White

#8. Randy Orton is dangerous and that man is delusional!

Alex Riley

#9. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.

Steve Maraboli

#10. If anyone's delusional about how love works, what real love feels like, it's the majority of the adult population.

J.A. Redmerski

#11. Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.

Jonathan Heatt

#12. I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

Nina Nesbitt

#13. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.

Dan Pearce

#14. Look at him. The man's not delusional. He's in love.

Tessa Dare

#15. All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

Veronica Roth

#16. Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.

Michel Templet

#17. Frightening numbers of people were either easy to deceive or wished ardently to submit to any belief system, no matter how delusional, that reassured them and justified their hatreds.

Dean Koontz

#18. we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.

Tim Wu

#19. Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Brent Weeks

#20. That's delusional, isn't it?'
'Definitely. But if you're both delusional together, you'll be fine.

Samantha Shannon

#21. Are you crazy or delusional?" He grinned lopsidedly.

"Usually a little of both.

Cathrina Constantine

#22. There is a difference between "denial" and "delusion." The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy.

Jill Conner Browne

#23. I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Christopher Page

#24. When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him.

M.L. Stedman

#26. What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood.

Patti Smith

#27. So what to do? ... She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.

Reginald Hill

#28. He's fine," Kamala said. "It's not like that. You're not listening." "I am listening! You just told me he's delusional, and I'm asking - " "I DID NOT SAY HE IS DELUSIONAL. I SAID HE WAS TALKING TO HIS MOTHER." "Who is dead," Amina said gently. "Obvious." "And that's not delusional?

Mira Jacob

#29. Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special - otherwise "special" wouldn't mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, "Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones" - and this is the problem.

Tim Urban

#30. Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.

D.A. Blankinship

#31. I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of the time.

Scott Adams

#32. I found this quote for writers on Twitter:
There is a fine line between confidence and delusional thought; cross it.
Don't know who wrote it but thought it was interesting.

Robin Glasser

#33. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.

Sameh Elsayed

#34. Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Gene Simmons

#35. Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

C.J. Anderson

#36. There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.

Will Smith

#37. When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Michael Lewis

#38. In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it?

Jon Stewart

#39. I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.

Ice-T

#40. Maybe I was being delusional about everything. For some reason I thought I'd just fall right into their lives like the long lost sister they'd always wanted. They

Nika Michelle

#41. Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.

"How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

G.S. Jennsen

#42. Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#43. Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Barbara Kingsolver

#44. She wasn't thinking about making it rich, she wasn't that delusional. But at least here was something that could take her away from herself if even for a little while, and she reveled in it.

Jordan Silver

#45. Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize it's all in fun, or all of the above.

Rebecca Solnit

#46. I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.

Hannah

#47. If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you're delusional. Your emotion is part you. You're made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#48. If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, "That guy is kinda delusional."

A. J. Jacobs

#49. What did you bring me today? Delusional mutterings with a side of crazy?

Marissa Meyer

#50. One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.

Park Dietz

#51. I pushed against him but he held me tight.
'You're delusional' I said.
'I'm the delusional guy whose going to keep you alive'
There was a fire behind his eyes. I set my jaw.
'You're the delusional guy who killed me in the first place

Brodi Ashton

#52. I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Matthew Gray Gubler

#53. I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role ... I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

Will Smith

#54. Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

Carolyn Hax

#55. Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

Rafi Zabor

#56. Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Anthony Storr

#57. The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional.

Dave Champion

#58. Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Joe Klein

#59. Vanity remains a feeble weapon
The delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

Sreesha Divakaran

#60. When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark - like someone involved in the drug world or some other criminal venture. Maybe someone who's delusional or not all there or just not well. I really hope I can do that one day.

Jennifer Coolidge

#61. Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. Our desire to find one "special person," one part of the Sonship who will complete us, is hurtful because it is delusional. It means we're seeking salvation in separation rather than in oneness. The

Marianne Williamson

#62. I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Michael Arndt

#63. I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

Diane Warren

#64. Make us human, they demanded
Agatha blanched. Since when could she understand animals?
Save us, princess, they cried.
Since when could she understand delusional animals?

Soman Chainani

#65. I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism
it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win

John Irving

#66. In every single poor country that I visited, I saw poor values and resentful attitudes. But in the rich, I saw delusional arrogance.

Robin Sacredfire

#67. A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

Cheng Yen

#68. Golden would find himself thinking that if he ever became delusional or foolhardy enough to outfit one of his houses with a complaint box, it would need to be about the size of a refrigerator.

Brady Udall

#69. Fundamentally, your brain doesn't like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don't.

It may be delusional but we're happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.

Eric Barker

#70. When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

James Howard Kunstler

#71. I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

#72. John spent the morning rebuilding his SOS sign on the beach. He says that he saw a commercial airliner pass over. I'm not sure if the trying circumstances have made him delusional, or if the plane was too high to see his small sign. I think he saw what he wanted to see.

Jennifer Arnett

#73. Corruption in any institution can only take hold, if organised elements within it act on delusional beliefs that do not benefit the whole.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#74. I'm not sure whether you're confident or delusional, but thanks anyway.

Rachel Hawkins

#75. Agent Jones held Sinjin's face in his hands. "I'm going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals."
"How right you are, strange delusional man," Sinjin said.

Libba Bray

#76. It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

Rebecca Serle

#77. I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Evangeline Lilly

#78. Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don't belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Carl Henegan

#79. The true Mind is one that exists before and beyond one's delusional, self-centered, attachment-filled mind.

Woo Myung

#80. Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Gad Saad

#81. Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

John Bradshaw

#82. We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional' . . . Clearly there is sanity in numbers.

Richard Dawkins

#83. The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

Diablo Cody

#84. When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#85. What distinguishes gurus from more orthodox teachers is not their manic-depressive mood swings, not their thought disorders, not their delusional beliefs, not their hallucinatory visions, not their mystical states of ecstasy: it is their narcissism.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY

Jon Krakauer

#86. Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Adam Carolla

#87. With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.

David LaChapelle

#88. I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

Lady Gaga

#89. Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

Mark Thomas

#90. I still don't believe it. It's not in him.
Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we're all animals here. And we all have a killer's instinct.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#91. Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality.

Tim Farrington

#92. You know what Ames? Come find me when you pull the stick out of your ass. You're delusional and I'm over it.

Melyssa Winchester

#93. It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not ...

Rick Riordan

#94. My hopes rose every time the phone rang, but it was never him. I concocted stories in my mind of every possible scenario where he would come for me or call me and declare his feelings. We would run far away together, where his father could never find us.
In other words, I was delusional.

Wendy Higgins

#95. I moved a pillow aside ... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.

Shalom Auslander

#96. think that you can make a habit of working a sixty- to eighty-hour week without crashing and burning or creating havoc elsewhere is delusional.

Kerri Weems

#97. I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to herself (from me). In her mind, we were married and had two children. Her parents finally uncovered this delusional life she was living and she got help.

Matthew McConaughey

#98. I'm always amazed when I hear people saying; That George Bush, he's a great leader. And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

Lewis Black

#99. Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

Eoin Colfer

#100. Blake: Why are you always trying to ruin my relationships?
Ayden: What relationships?
Blake: Jen and I have been going steady for at least ten minutes now.
Jen: *Snorts*
Ayden: And we've gone from creepy to delusional.
Matthais: *Drags Blake way.*

A&E Kirk