Adequacy Quote by Walter Kerr

“He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.”

— Walter Kerr

“If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

— Rafael Sabatini

“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac…

— Etienne de L'Amour

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and…

— Laura Elliot

“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.”

— Meg Wolitzer

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

— Vernon Howard

“It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.”

— Erin Hart

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him…

— James Joyce

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov