It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children — Manu Joseph 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
“Have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. Have flawless confidence because you are worthy and sacred.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions. — John Wesley Shipp Copy Share Image
“We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.” — D.A. Blankinship Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange that somebody smiling is so noticeable? I've always smiled. It was part of my armoury when I was 14… — Sam Ryder 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
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't know what people want. I have delusions of grandeur, but I'm not sitting here talking to you and thinking that… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs?… — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else—you see it, but they don’t. They talk to you,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
