Delusion Quotes

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Truth about tears is that, most tears are the result of a delusion

The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears

I was sane once. It was horrible.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

Immortality entails not invincibility.

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

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.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.