Quotes About Self-deception

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. —Nathaniel Hawthorne

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself So our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breathe and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle

You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes people go back to people they shouldn't ever go back to.

And that was where the whiskey got hold of her. As it has with so many of us, even myself, the liquor sneaked up and grabbed her, got into her mind and talked to her, fooled her into thinking she was thinking for herself when really it was the whiskey thinking whiskey thoughts.

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It's no matter that this dye doesn't fool you. My lady, you don't dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

We deceive ourselves so easily. Especially when we enjoy believing a certain thing...

Perché nulla è più complicato della sincerità. Fingiamo tutti spontaneamente, non tanto innanzi agli altri, quanto innanzi a noi stessi; crediamo sempre di noi quello che ci piace credere, e ci vediamo non quali siamo in realtà, ma quali presumiamo d'essere secondo la costruzione ideale che ci siamo fatta di noi stessi.

Lie to yourself if you want, but you're not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn't really want it.

The secret of my lies must be that which makes for good acting. I never plunge into a lie carelessly, without first telling myself: "How would I feel if this were true?

Altogether a noble form of self-deception, since the ultimate truth is that if a man is sensual, he will carry sensuality into his friendships too, into everything, including his enjoyment of music and painting etc.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…

She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.

One of the greatest obstacles I see to our fashioning a rational approach to spirituality is to have religious superstition and self-deception masquerade as science.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he doesn't possess.

She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.

Supuse que todos nos despegamos de nuestra imagen en algún momento. Que traicionamos nuestra máscara

that other people have told you and living one that's based on a lie you've told yourself.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

No man is more enslaved than he who falsely thinks he is free.

I have not snares around thee cast; Thyself hast led thyself into the meshes. Who traps the Devil, hold him fast! Not soon a second time he'll catch a prey so precious.

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