Fear cripples our minds and breeds delusions

“No matter how fierce the enemy seems--when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us,…

— Katy Kauffman

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

— Diane Keaton

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

— Dan Brown

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that…

— Anna Quindlen

“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.”

— Steve Maraboli

“If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of…

— Edward M. Wolfe

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

— Victor LaValle

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

— B. Alan Wallace

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

— Gautama Buddha

When someone is delusional, there is no point wasting time responding to their delusions.

— Kourtney Kardashian

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

— Claude Steiner

“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a…

— Patricia Highsmith

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…

— Sigmund Freud

“From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is…

— A.L. Davroe