Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you’re lucky.
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it’s cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.
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.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
I have a million career weaknesses, and although it’s uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.
I lived so completely in my mind – a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion – all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.
Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.
When I’ve gone back to work, it’s always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it’s the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can’t avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
I’ll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
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