Quotes About Delusion

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

How can you say you're not in love with Hell?" "Because I'm not in love with Hell." See? Not hard to say at all. It's true isn't it? "Delusional much?

there is a difference between "denial" and "delusion." The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy.

We sort of tell ourselves what we want to hear and the more we do that, the more we begin to agree with ourselves—and maybe get fooled into thinking what is wrong is actually right.

TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL CROWD MODELS Delusion Model

TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL CROWD MODELS Delusion Model The delusion model describes the process an individual becoming part of a psychological crowd before he has a position on. (1) Expectant Attention (2) Suggestion Made (3) Process of Contagion (4) Acceptance by All Present.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

That's right, I, Human, Do not change. Thinking I can change is nothing but a delusion Trying to change without true reflection is simply foolish Human, Never, Change

It is the delusion that the self is so separate and fragile that we must delineate and defend its boundaries; that it is so small and so needy that we must endlessly acquire and endlessly consume; and that as individuals, corporations, nation-states, or a species, we can be immune to what we do to other beings. The

I've come to see the resolution, And I must cede the throne And hearken to my own delusion As if it ceased to be my own.

And yet hope turns out to be let's face it mostly delusion a word derived from Latin ludere meaning "to play a game with oneself or others"...

One just had to admire his deluded self-confidence.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see.

All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew it was still last night while the people in the streets had the delusion that it was bright hot morning.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want me to see.

In seeking anything, we do so out of ambition, but we either fail to achieve that ambition and are the poorer, or we think we have achieved it and are merely rich madmen.

I painted myself in false colors and ended up with an attic room for an empire.

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?