(95 quotes found)
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas H. Everett
“Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief”
Buddha
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
A. E. Housman
“He had delusions of adequacy”
Walter Kerr
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.”
Edward Dowling
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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