Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Truth is always a delusion.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

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

Hope is the denial of reality.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.