Hallucinations Quotes

97 Hallucinations quotes by 85 unique authors

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from… — Thomas Pynchon
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations — Aleister Crowley
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in… — Alan Moore
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. — Alan Watts
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own… — John Wyndham
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! — Allen Ginsberg
I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins
Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I’m bait?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination — Derek Landy
I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. — Jack Kerouac
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
It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were… — Stephenie Meyer
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms… — Jack London
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being… — Cory Doctorow
Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time — Lynne Ewing
His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath… — Lilith Saintcrow
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and… — Oliver Sacks
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food… — Charles Dickens
Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result… — Cassandra Clare

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