Delusions Of Grandeur Quotes

“She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account....Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“In his lifetime, he had seen enough injustice to know the world was cold and remorseless and didn’t care one fig about the happiness of people. He tried to live a good life and devote that life to helping others, but he never thought the world would reward him for his efforts. Such a thought would be the ultimate in self-deluding self-aggrandizement, for why would the world care one iota about him?”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Some people seem to have a vested interest in their delusion. - On Delusion”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“The ego is always looking for support because, essentially, it is very afraid and is constantly failing to give us the happiness it promises. It doesn't know what it is doing. It has delusions of grandeur that unfailingly disappoint. It is a poor guide and companion compared to the spirit, albeit, a loud one. There is a beautiful grandeur in us. If we claim it, we would never again turn to the trifling and pathetic attempts of the ego at grandiosity.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Immortality entails not invincibility.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. Have flawless confidence because you are worthy and sacred.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“American Exceptionalism is a false religion.”
― Dan Kovalik, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia

“We propose a general division of delusions;   “self deceptions of common feats" (like mysticism, erotomania, identity delusions, possession delusions, grandiose delusions) and "self deception of shield feats" (delusions of jealousy, delusions of reference as being slandered, persecution as being poisoned).  The theory of the shield feats can be the connecting piece between self deception and delusions, because although always delusions of grandiosity could easily be understood as self deception to enjoy a more pleasant world, the frequency of negative delusions seems to destroy this simplistic hypothesis. However , when considering the shield feats, then it is the link that connects the intuitive hypothesis of self-deception with psychosis , which happens to be understood as a continuum of the same phenomenon”
― Martín Ross, THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.

“I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer—
now it seems that it’s
to want to earn a
decent living”
― Volatalistic Phil, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

“The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I still have much up my sleeve.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“My delusions of grandeur are steadily becoming a reality of grandeur.”
― Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos

“Writing, for me, is the easiest thing in the world to do. Just kidding!”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“I like to laugh at myself. It frees me from any pesky expectations or delusions of grandeur.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Life is the enjoyment of delusion. Death is the zenith of disillusion.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad