It appeared as if he could not be brought to accept the homely truth, and take me for what I was: men, and women too, must have delusion of some sort; if not made ready to their hand, they will invent exaggeration for themselves.
While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority—no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language….
De Hamal is most worthless, yet I fear he pleases her: wretched delusion!
Do not think that it was a delusion, Holmes.
The delusion did not last long.
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
Her thoughts being still chiefly fixed on what she had with such causeless terror felt and done, nothing could shortly be clearer than that it had been all a voluntary, self-created delusion, each trifling circumstance receiving importance from an imagination resolved on alarm, and everything forced to bend to one purpose by a mind which, before she entered the abbey, had been craving to be frightened.
And now we come to the most alarming delusion of all.
In turn the researchers think this skewed perception perpetuates a collective delusion in which we all strive to present an unrealistically happy front because we think that's the norm.
This is a toxic belief and a delusion, yet sadly a great proportion of unhappy people fall prey to this, which is largely why they are unhappy.
It is perhaps the delusion of every generation to exaggerate the novelty of their age and believe they face challenges and opportunities that no one has ever faced before.
John had the serious mental illness when he was young, he refused to take the medicine which could make his mind think slowly, so he was doing his research while struggling with his delusion.
A thin line separates confidence and delusion, and Kobe Bryant is straddling it.
07） ●No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005 Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
But there they are, and it is no delusion.
She is nothing but a delusion.
