Hallucinatory State Quotes & Sayings

I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind. — Haruki Murakami

In the midst of all his sadness, Pierre felt deep compassion penetrate his heart. He was upset by the thought that mankind should be so wretched, reduced to such a state of woe, so bare, so weak, so utterly forsaken, that it renounced its own reason to place the one sole possibility of happiness in the hallucinatory intoxication of dreams. Tears once more filled his eyes; he wept for himself and for others, for all the poor tortured beings who feel a need of stupefying and numbing their pains in order to escape from the realities of the world. — Emile Zola

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. — Mike Nichols

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous. — Matthew Caws

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. — Cate Blanchett

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away. — Aaron Copland

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. — Karl Marx

The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it — Confucius

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy. — Joan D. Chittister

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. — Muhammad Ali

[Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets without being harassed. He could go into a restaurant and receive service. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is Thou shalt not question. — Sigmund Freud

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly. — Gudjon Bergmann

While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31) — W.L. Rusho

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. — Lenny Bruce

If you have no dreams, you shall live within them — Robert Burton

Do Lord, do Lord, do linger
nearer. — Khafre Kujichagulia Abif

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies. — Bertrand Russell