83 quotes found
“Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.”
“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”
“Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.”
“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captivebe that from a person, a government, or ones inner self...”
“I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.”
“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of ...”
“The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.”
“And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.”
“And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?”
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a mean...”
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will...”
“In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.”
“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.”
“Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I...”
“Wait!" said Erbrechen, suddenly feeling jovial. "I change my mind. Never shite again. Ever. Anywhere."It was a small thing, but of such small things were life's joys truly made. The thought, he kne...”
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We f...”
“It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).”
“That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this...”
“If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (I...”
“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestric...”
