Steven Millhauser

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

American Novelist

Jack Black

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

American Actor

Gene Simmons

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

American Musician

Jennifer Hyman

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

American Businesswoman

Panos Cosmatos

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

Canadian Director

Thomas Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

English Scientist

Taapsee Pannu

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

Indian Actress

Ludwig Borne

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

German Writer

Al Goldstein

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

American Publisher

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Swiss Author

Delusions often indicate mental illness, especially conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

Mental Illness Link

Delusions can involve feelings of great importance or unjust maltreatment.

Grandeur or Persecution

In literature, 'delusion' is used to explore characters' flawed perceptions or reality.

Contextual nuance

While delusions can indicate mental illness, ordinary people might also hold false beliefs.

Not Always Mental Illness

Delusion can come from self-deception; refusing to see the truth to protect oneself emotionally.

Self-Deception

Some cultural sayings like 'chasing a delusion' are used to describe pursuing unachievable goals.

Cultural Expressions

 For example, when I'm psychotic I often have the delusion that I've killed hundreds of thousands of people with my thoughts. I sometimes have the idea that nuclear explosions are about to be set off in my brain. Occasionally, I have hallucinations, like one time I turned around and saw a man with a raised knife.

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 a garden. We shake this box up, and all these people kind of start hitting each other like particles. And I think that's the way you change the world. You redefine your insides and the box that you're living in. And you come together to realize that we're all in this together, that this delusion of difference --

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 and saying exceptionally glowing things about you. The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion -- it's reality. I want to live in a world where givers succeed, and I hope you will help me create that world.

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 here an advanced Ebola patient who is quite delusional sometimes the disease is intense it causes delusions in the mind and this guy has tried to escape from one of the highly quarantine wards here in this holding facility at

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 and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation. Two years later, and the deterioration was dramatic. By now, I had the whole frenzied terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions.

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 when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered. Like generations before us,

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 like the way I see life and society so if I take advantage of your support to team up with a company that had complete different goals to sell you sneakers perfume or underwear you be fair that is called delusion and I

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 Marijuana can also cause hallucinations or paranoid delusions. Known as marijuana-induced psychosis, these symptoms usually subside when a person stops using marijuana. But in rare cases, psychosis doesn’t subside,

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 because we believe we are seeing the truth. But the truth lies. I became obsessed with that "But the truth lies." And I discovered, as I talked to depressive people, that they have many delusional perceptions.

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 They know that suffering is part of life. This doesn't mean they actually welcome it in, they're not actually delusional. Just that when the tough times come, they seem to know