#delusion

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#getting #hold #makes #rid #than

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#delusions #events #every #false #into

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#delusions #had #i #my own #own

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #delusion #desire #government

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream — ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#drama #dream #imagination #age

She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cashier #confusion #daydreaming #delusional #fantasy

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#happiness #hope #life #youth #dreams

There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky and tricked himself that was how his life had been. But the years scraped by hard as ever and he got less and the stories more ’til they were tales of a man he’d never met succeeding at what he’d never have dreamed of attempting. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#self-image #dreams