“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
Pearl S. Buck
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion”
Henry Louis Mencken
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas H. Everett
“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief”
Buddha
