Joyce Meyer Quotes

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Most people like to live in illusions.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Hope is the denial of reality.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Reality doesn't interest me.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.