Fooling Yourself Quotes

“If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Swords

“We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“As long as he fought imaginary giants, Don Quixote was just play-acting. However once he actually kills someone, he will cling to his fantasies for all he is worth, because only they give meaning to his tragic misdeed. Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the more tenaciously we hold on to it, because we desperately want to give meaning to those sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Pathological liars lie most often to themselves about their ability to fool others. They think they're geniuses at it when most people see through their constant deceit in a split second. Yet their brittle egos and lack of self-awareness (the reasons they lie in the first place) prevent them from noticing they're bad liars. Thus, they never learn, progress, and become better people.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull”
― Jayden Hunter, Undressed To The Nines

“Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“She thought: I love him. Like telling herself something and hoping she believed it.”
― Jack Skillingstead, Life on the Preservation

“Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?”
― Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy