Quotes About Delusions

#1. Your Blake is mourning something. I think that pain is manifesting as his glass-skin delusions. You're going to have to approach him as if he's in one of those tents I walk into. My advice is this: Listen, Livia. Listen to him. Saying words out loud can heal.

Debra Anastasia

#2. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#3. Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.

Asaram

#4. Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

Michael Mewshaw

#5. I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer
now it seems that it's
to want to earn a
decent living

Phil Volatile

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

Eugene Ionesco

#7. But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

Rob Thomas

#8. Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved."
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Mary Karr

#9. Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings of delusions.

Lionel Suggs

#10. Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

Stephen King

#11. There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#12. The only talents he possessed were delusions of adequacy.

Jodi Taylor

#13. Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Ginnetta Correli

#14. Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

Stewart Brand

#15. There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Charles Kuralt

#16. Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Jonathan Lethem

#17. Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Aleksandar Hemon

#18. The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.

Steve Maraboli

#19. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events

Adrienne Rich

#20. Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?

R. Scott Bakker

#21. He is an idiot," I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind."
"No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power," he said.

Aimee Carter

#22. One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

Julian Barnes

#25. Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

Laozi

#26. Those who are roped into bed at night often fall into delusions of flight.

Gregory Maguire

#27. I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

El-P

#29. A tired man is already in the grip of death and insanity ... A sane man is a man who is fully awake. As he grows tired, he loses his ability to rise above dreams and delusions, and life becomes steadily more chaotic.

Colin Wilson

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

Terence McKenna

#31. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Jack Black

#32. In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

H.P. Lovecraft

#33. One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Reed

#34. Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Doug Stanhope

#35. It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them

Anne McCaffrey

#36. A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.

Peter Clines

#37. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it's love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.

J.A. Redmerski

#38. Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

Marni Jackson

#39. I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

Tony Robbins

#40. 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

#41. If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. Michael Straczynski

#42. Hers might never be calm or easy paintings, but those canvases are the way she keeps herself centered. She needs to create, or she will lose herself bit by bit to her fears and delusions.

Lisa Maxwell

#43. It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

Sam Savage

#44. What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

Ayushee Ghoshal

#45. The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Agnes Repplier

#46. What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create.

Robin McLeavy

#47. However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

John Quincy Adams

#48. Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

Richard Dawkins

#49. I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

Hattie Morahan

#50. He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

Walter Kerr

#51. I have noted two particularly powerful and common methods of allaying fears about death, two beliefs, or delusions, that afford a sense of safety. One is the belief in personal specialness; the other, the belief in an ultimate rescuer.

Irvin D. Yalom

#52. Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Jane Smiley

#53. And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

Manu Joseph

#54. The deranged tended to live in segregated parts of town where their delusions would not be tainted and limited by the proximity of the solid beliefs of the pathetic sane.

Michael R. Fletcher

#55. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

#56. I could not but smile to hear her talking in this lofty strain, but I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

Oliver Goldsmith

#57. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell

#58. He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name.
His name was Jimmy.

Teresa Lo

#59. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

H.L. Mencken

#60. 'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.

Steve Erickson

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

D.A. Blankinship

#62. Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

Henry David Thoreau

#63. Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

W. Somerset Maugham

#64. Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.

Christina Engela

#65. And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

Philip Freneau

#66. Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.

E. Franklin Frazier

#68. There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

#69. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

Anthony Storr

#70. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

#71. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D.

Kurt Vonnegut

#72. Though I was retreating from the Truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it because I did not yet know that evil with nothing but the privation of good.

Augustine Of Hippo

#73. I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

Bebe Neuwirth

#74. Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for good ends, perverted to bad purposes.

Martin Van Buren

#75. It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things.

Tarjei Vesaas

#76. Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorderncharacterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. See also: Nightmare.

Holly Schindler

#77. God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Shannon L. Alder

#78. Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

John Calvin

#79. No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

Manu Joseph

#80. As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

Dan Rather

#81. Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions,
Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them.
Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'
Is the self-confidence of action.

Shantideva

#82. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#83. I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#84. 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

#85. Every time I think I'm getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me
excruciatingly aware that all I've succeeded in doing is swapping one set of delusions for a more elaborate, attractive set of delusions

Karen Marie Moning

#86. I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#87. Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

Scott Adams

#88. Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

Tony Kushner

#89. Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

Peter David

#90. I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

H.P. Lovecraft

#91. It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

Stephenie Meyer

#92. I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions.

Pankaj Mishra

#93. I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

#94. The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Rick Mercer

#95. Neither of us has a monoply on delusions.Our only hope is to take time to discover who we really are and decide if that's a reality we both can live with.

Sylvain Reynard

#96. You sweet delusions of my mind
(From the poem 'From Love to Friendship')

Voltaire

#97. Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler

#98. Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon)
The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek)
Meaning? (Talon)
Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#99. The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick

#100. The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one bleak and grotesque place after another, for you can imagine yourself into all kinds of paranoid delusions and even into madness.

Dean Koontz