D

Topic

delusion

/delusion-quotes-and-sayings

179 Quotes

Topic Summary

About the delusion quote collection

The delusion page groups 179 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.

Topic Feed

Quotes filed under delusion

"

Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time.

"

To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one's life unfinished implies the possibility of success. What is left unlived may contain the potential truth one always seeks. Those who kill themselves do so with the conviction that they would have reached that truth eventually had they lived to the proper end. They die in the illusion of hope which in a way keeps the rest of us alive. Reason, therefore, for not committing suicide.

RF
Raymond Federman

Smiles on Washington Square

"

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for __ntegrity_ is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word __onesty_ mean? Or __otherland_? Or __rogress_? Or __emocracy_? Or __eauty_? But even in our self-deception, we become gods.

"

We dream _ it is good we are dreaming __t would hurt us _ were we awake __ut since it is playing _ kill us,And we are playing _ shriek __hat harm? Men die _ externally __t is a truth _ of Blood __ut we _ are dying in Drama __nd Drama _ is never dead __autious _ We jar each other __nd either _ open the eyes __est the Phantasm _ prove the Mistake __nd the livid SurpriseCool us to Shafts of Granite __ith just an Age _ and Name __nd perhaps a phrase in Egyptian __t's prudenter _ to dream _

ED
Emily Dickinson

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems