Top 33 Quotes About Delusions Of Grandeur
#1. Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Eugene Ionesco
#2. Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.
Joseph Heller
#3. 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, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.
Chris Diamantopoulos
#4. There was one man stood above the rest, surrounded and engulfed within his own delusions of grandeur.
As there always seems to be.
Ross Turner
#5. What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
Ayn Rand
#6. Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Jane Wagner
#7. Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well.
Peter L. Bergen
#8. If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer.
Edward M. Wolfe
#9. To express himself well, the artist should be hidden ... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#10. The spark of life is not gain. Nor is it luxury. The spark of life is movement. Color. Love. And furthermore ... if you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur.
Mark Helprin
#12. It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals ...
Stephen King
#13. Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.
Samuel R. Delany
#14. No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
Luke Bracey
#15. I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
El-P
#16. He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.
Nell Zink
#17. 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
#18. Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you
Ginnetta Correli
#19. I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.
El-P
#20. A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.
Peter Clines
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.
Jimmy Kimmel
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
Tim McGraw
#29. What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur.
Mira Gonzalez
#30. She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.
Stephen King
#31. Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.
Peter David
#32. We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.
Peter Watts
#33. The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance.
Steve Maraboli
