Quotes About Self-deception

He looks deep into my eyes and I see clarity, or maybe that is one of the things we make ourselves believe at the end. A final false comfort.

Guys who lack confidence in so many ways still manage to delude themselves into thinking they are irresistible to all women.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, or our doctors, have done wrong.

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To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager.

Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.

Had Don Quixote been simply and plainly mad, or had he indulged in a protracted game of self-deception and play-acting, we should not be talking of him now, Van Doren observes—"We are talking of him because we suspect that, in the end, he did become a knight.

You, my friend, are so good at lying to yourself you're actually starting to believe the bullshit coming out of your mouth

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

I told them I wasn't crying. I told them my eyes were watering from all the marker fumes. And they seem to believe me. Too bad the only person I didn't seem able to fool anymore was myself.

Is that what the wine is for? To help you think? Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?" Isaiah 44:20

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.