Taylor Swift Quotes

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

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

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

When somebody says I wouldn't change a thing they're thinking of something they would change.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.