Delusions Quotes
158 quotes by 129 authors
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It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.†“An army? Talk about delusions…
— Nora Roberts
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know…
— James A. Baldwin
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
— Ann Brashares
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...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 your solipsism: Does…
— Jonathan Lethem
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A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
— Derrick Jensen
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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
— Julian Barnes
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Your cowardly self-delusions about “love†when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and…
— Richard Yates
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Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I…
— Steven Erikson
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Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that…
— Karen Marie Moning
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.
— J.A. Redmerski
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The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why?…
— Ryohgo Narita
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The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions…
— George Muller
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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 in solitary confinement.
— William Golding
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What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to…
— Baron d'Holbach
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and…
— Clarence Darrow
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I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be…
— George Muller
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle…
— Natasha Lyonne
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