Quotes About Self-deceiving

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

The history of every dead and dying "growth" industry shows a self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and undetected decay.

and then, from that dungeon in the West, There rises up a melody, beguiling and forlorn. It is the sweet, sad, self-deceiving murderer's song, And it will not end 'til morn . . .' -- Wheldrake, The Prisoners

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

As a Southerner, coming of age for me included a dawning awareness that we were living with a story that was self-deceiving, a lie. The resulting tension planted something deep in my soul, a nagging sense of betrayal.

They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.