87 Quotes About Delusions
- Author Steven Magee
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Embrace delusions.
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- Author Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
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- Author Jonathan Harnisch
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No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?
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- Author Christian Nestell Bovee
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..
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- Author Emily St. John. Mandel
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But no, that's memory, not the counterlife. Vincent isn't in the counterlife. He feels it's important to keep the two separate, memory vs. counterlife, but he's been finding the separation increasingly difficult. It's a permeable border.
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- Author Donna Goddard
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Relationships always bring about the dissolution of our delusions.
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- Author William Golding
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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.
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- Author Andy Harglesis
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I think delusion -- in a sense -- is the proper way of life and living sometimes. Since you can't always be grounded on truthhood or falsehood on every account, delusion seemingly acts as an intermediary or "equalizing glue" for the gaps of the unknown or unacceptable, among other things.
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