Lionel Shriver Quotes

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

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

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

He had delusions of adequacy.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

I'm not a tortured soul.

You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I don't lie," I lied.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.