Delusion Quotes - Page 16

• I felt the electricity of his body behind me as he reached around me and took the card from my hand. He didn't move away, and I battled the urge to lean back into him, seeking the comfort of his strength. Would he wrap his arms around me? Make me feel safe, if only for a moment, and if only a delusion?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Hands, Comfort

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.597, Dell

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• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

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• Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Mirrors, Doors

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• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, Done, World

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

  Steven Erikson

  Humility, Soul, Mastery

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• The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

  John Bradshaw

  Religious, Loving Life, Giving

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.138, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, Real, Hate

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• Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness- that’s why. That’s why I couldn’t stop laughing about the Inability to Love, and that’s why I can’t stand to let you touch me, and that’s why I’ll never again believe in anything you think, let alone anything you say

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

  Lionel Shriver

  Suffering

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.181, Counterpoint Press

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• Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

  Glen Duncan

  Differences, Knowing, Making A Difference

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• It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

  Ann Brashares

  Real, Size, Shows

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.163, Penguin

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• I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

  Darin Strauss

  Crazy, Thinking, Perfectly Normal

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

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• Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

  Russ Potts

  Lying, Mean, Deceit

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Madness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

  Moncure D. Conway

  World, Progressive, Machinery

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• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  Farley Mowat

  Errors, Important, Lasts

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• I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

  Scott Lynch

  Unique, Thinking, Epic

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

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Thinking, Exception

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• Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

  Francis Collins

  Atheist, Atheism, Argument

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• Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.

  Nora Roberts

  Couple, Army, Fighting

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.253, Penguin

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• To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

  Christopher Paolini

  Moments, Revelations, Knows

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.185, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

  George Galloway

  Self, Iraq, People

  "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.

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• Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

  Thomas Thomson

  Astrology, Magic, Superstitions

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• ...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

  Donald Miller

  Men, Proud, Kingdoms

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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