Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: reality sanity illusion delusion hallucination fantasy-romance
Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: beauty fitting-in delusion belonging uniqueness mentality duplication exceptionality replication
The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated her inability to understand something quite obvious – that Tolya was no longer among the living. Her love was so strong that Tolya's death was unable to affect it: to her, he was still alive.
She was mad, but no one had noticed. Now, at last, she had found Tolya. Her joy was like that of a mother-cat when she finds her dead kitten and licks it all over.
A soul can live in torment for years and years, even decades, as it slowly, stone by stone, builds a mound over a grave; as it moves towards the apprehension of eternal loss and bows down before reality.
Tag: death delusion grief death-of-a-loved-one delusion-in-death
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Vernon HowardTag: delusion
It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything.
Pat ConroyTag: delusion metacognition
[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.
Ludwig FeuerbachTag: delusion superstition contradiction contradictions
You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.
Thomas PynchonTag: idealism delusion revisionism
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
Daniel C. DennettTag: life rudeness opinion delusion question polite tough
I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
Jawaharlal NehruTag: belief death atheism hypocrisy delusion funeral religious-ceremonies
Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: sin actions delusion crime feelings
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