Delusion Quotes

• Whatever you think is delusion.

  

  Dainin Katagiri
  • Thinking
  • Delusion

• People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Movie
  • Albums

• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religions
  • Delusion
  • Recognizes

• I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Answers
  • Might
  • Delusion

• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Office

• ...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Romance
  • Mutual
  • Pact

• Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Hope
  • Shadow
  • Delusion

• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Believe
  • Conscience
  • Farce

• Low self esteem is a delusion, and it can cause people to have many maladjustments in life.

  

  Abraham J. Twerski
  • Self-Esteem
  • Delusion
  • Maladjustments

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

  

  Sean Parker
  • Imagination
  • Suffering
  • Entrepreneur

• A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Gay
  • Delusion
  • Macho

• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Madness
  • Delusion
  • Seized

• Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest

  

  Paul Newman
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Dream

• There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Dangerous
  • Expression
  • Vehemence

• We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Wealth
  • Persist
  • Squandering

• The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Myth
  • Delusion
  • Demise

• There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sick-rooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Happiness
  • Christ
  • Anxiety

• The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Generator

• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Remark

• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Strange

• I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Style
  • Source
  • Intense

• I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Library

• Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Believe
  • War
  • The Lord

• Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Truth
  • Happiness
  • Delusion

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