Quotes About Delusion

Whoever established that standard is deluded. Men are meant to be hard, women soft. It's as simple as that.

In 1942 in Warsaw, we were living without hope, or rather on a hope we knew to be a delusion.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Hell's bells, Morty, I said. Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into deluding myself into deluding him into deluding me that I made the whole thing up.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

This was a California girl, and she was raised on a history that placed not much emphasis on why. She was never an idealist, and this pleased no one. She was tainted by survival. She came back from the other side with a story no one wanted to hear, a dispiriting account of a situation in which delusion and incompetence were pitted against delusion and incompetence of another kind, and in the febrile rhythms of San Francisco in the midseventies it seemed a story devoid of high notes.

It all begins so hopefully, but these Worlds we build for ourselves are all just castles in the sand, waiting for the evening tide.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I think our generation has a delusional level of self importance. Must I remind you that nobody is checking for you.

Putting wings on your body can't make you an eagle.

The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common fear of its neighbors.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne