“ He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his… Fred Kaplan
“ Note for a moment do I take you for a truth that is real,' Ivan exclaimed in what even amounted to fury. 'You are a falsehood, you are my illness, you are a ghost. Only I do not know how to destroy yo… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled… Haruki Murakami
“ Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are? William Golding
“ The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest t… William Hazlitt
“ Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a dying god, not life caught in the spell of death, or a dead god, as modern interpreters have said. He was the hallucinated voice of a de… Julian Jaynes
“ Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely ag… John W. Loftus
“ But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voi… Samuel R. Delany
“ A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of… Terence McKenna
“ A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and… John Thomas Allen
“ I, for example, quiet plainly and simply insist upon annihilation for myself. No, they say, you must go on living, for without you there would be nothing. If everything on earth were reasonable, nothi… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I wish you were here, I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. Mayb… Beth Revis
“ A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life. Terence McKenna
“ There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight… Teju Cole
“ I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred. A.B. Shepherd
“ At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the grotesque and the horrible kept close company. Prostrate, as i… Jean Lorrain
