Pete Doherty Quotes

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

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

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

Most people like to live in illusions.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

There are so many things that can take over your life: money, alcohol, drugs - even fashion. People hand you things, and you start to believe life is easy. And it's not like that - you're not supposed to be the person you play in the movies.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.