Able Quote by Stephen Spender

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any…

— H. L. Mencken

“Psychologists have finally proven that the entire justice system’s deep motives and its idea as a whole, which have existed for thousands of years,…

— Alexandar Tomov

Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my…

— Hugh Hefner

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions…

— Charles Kuralt

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

— Stephen King

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

— John Calvin

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed…

— Andrew Solomon

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

— Tony Kushner

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

— Steve Maraboli

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

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

— Claude Steiner

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