Top 146 Delusional Quotes & Sayings

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Randy Orton is dangerous and that man is delusional!

I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we’re all animals here. And we all have a killer’s instinct.

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.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

I've always had a bit of delusional confidence.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

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

I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

I knew I had to just keep believing, never lose sight of my purpose. As a fighter, you need to be delusional in a way. It keeps you going.

You have to believe in yourself. But you know what? There's a fine line between believing in yourself and being delusional. And I'm sure there were a lot of people who thought I was being delusional when they saw me attempting to become a big shot in the world of pro wrestling. Luckily, it worked out: it doesn't work out for that many people.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.