Delusional Quotations

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

His symptoms will go into remission sufficiently enough to stand trial. There is a high likelihood that he will regain competency. His interest and his interpersonal functioning has been improving. (But) his delusional thoughts have continued.

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

I think Microsoft would like to wait until after the election, and maybe if George W. Bush wins, they could get treated better by a Bush Justice Department. I think they're delusional if they think that's going to get them out of their problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's in the backs of their minds.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Eric was delusional and he believed he was killing an alien.

Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I will not really attempt to describe this long period of time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply omitting to give the details of truly personal type.

the U.S. government is delusional with the idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution.

If you deny the delusion, you only make it worse; you compel the delusional individual to strive to prove you wrong. Elevating someone with delusional disorder first and then cutting them down is a recipe for exacerbating the delusion, absolutely.

I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else.

Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.