#delusion

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#better #common #delusion #make #talking

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convinces ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it. ↗

— William C. Moyers

#self-delusion #funny

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#remember

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#communication #companies #companion-animals #delusion #education

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending that things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#life-lessons #perspective #life

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#greatness #star #walking

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#called #delusions #his #lunatics #philosopher

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cheap #delusions #house #live

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. ↗

— James Bovard

#election #form #government #mass #noble