Quotes of: Delusions Keyword

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

Notes on a Scandal

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

Lionel Suggs

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

Shannon L. Alder

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

Saint Ignatius

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Bo Bennett

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Thomas Huxley

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

Hattie Morahan

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.

Love

Street Poet: Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash / Oh baby with your pretty face / Drop a tear in my wineglass / Look at those big eyes / See what you mean to me / Sweet-cakes and milkshakes / I'm a delusion angel / I'm a fantasy parade / I want you...

Before Sunrise

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

Delusions of Grandeur

Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

Delusions of Grandeur

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

The Beacon

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

Poetic Delusions

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce