If as we see nightfall, we become capable of accepting love,let’s celebrate an alliance with our unbroken delusions. Who ever knew we would say goodbye to oblivion? Who ever knew we would accept hope?

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a...

Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a...

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

There’s a great deal of power in pretending.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images...

God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on him or her, but the hatred you’re harboring. Otherwise, you will allow your...

How can I clearly see what’s wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I’m standing in front of a fogged mirror?

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Delusions are a vital part of my existence.

We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention,...

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people’s minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

There’s nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the...

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their...

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more...

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn’t it? Shadows grow faces.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God. He left the clinic in fine spirits. He had no intention of removing...

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.

She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.