289 Quotes About Delusion

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.

There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky and tricked himself that was how his life had been. But the years scraped by hard as ever and he got less and the stories more ’til they were tales of a man he’d never met succeeding at what he’d never have dreamed of attempting.

If you meet the Buddha, kill him.

Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops.

These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.