Quotes About Delusion

Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food.

There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God.

In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

From anger results delusion, from delusion results confusion of memory ...' Not only anger, but a scroll of other unhappy emotions can fog your mind: fear, depression, self-pity, envy, grief, hatred, restlessness, anxiety.

I moved a pillow aside... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.

Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could.

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

Second, if you are one of those rare women who is a size 2 and convinced you're fat, be careful. You're probably delusional.

How foolish of her to have fallen into a dream.