“So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that… — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view… — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The hairline difference between imagination and hallucination is that imagination finds always limitless reality, whereas hallucination binds itself within the limits of… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If you feel disconnected from reality or the 3D world, you can still become wealthy or financially stable by tapping into the… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Every aspect of the deeply religious persons life revolves around the delusion of a god. Once this belief is set, then science… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory… — Shruti Upadhaya Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation.… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
