Aldous Huxley Mescaline Quotes & Sayings

I recognized exactly where she was - that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy. — Jen Nadol

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? - how far? - how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. — Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to. — Bill Bailey

The promise of spring's arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter! — Jen Selinsky

Laugh at life before life laughs at you. — Vikrmn

The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear. — Aldous Huxley

Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear.
She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me.
Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you. — Kami Garcia

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children. — Richard C. Armitage

I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, — Jodi Picoult

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on. — Angela Merkel