It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
“Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Too often we post mile markers to convince ourselves of a road that doesn’t exist and a journey that we’re not on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the illusion of delusion, between madness and lawlessness I exist. I dream about dreams, about illusions and disillusions and cold and… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
