Hallucinations Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Leadership, Insane, Illusion

  14 Copy quote

• Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

  Aleister Crowley

  Lord, Abyss, Esoteric Wisdom

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, Mind

  8 Copy quote

• Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Rivers, Bullshit

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.22, City Lights Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

  Michael Cunningham

  Strong, Mind, Sorrow

  7 Copy quote

• [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Vision, Mind

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.631, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

  Children, Technology, Cyberspace

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Jesus, People

  101 Copy quote

• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

  33 Copy quote

• I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

  Alan Watts

  Ego, Skins, Bags

  13 Copy quote

• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Apes, Depends

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.440, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Marijuana, Fifteen, Minutes

  8 Copy quote

• 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 this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Musical, Brain

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 poisoning

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Scrooge, Ghost

  11 Copy quote

• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

  William Gibson

  Cyberspace

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

  Michel Foucault

  Night, Vanity, Light

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.111, Vintage

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sound, Tests, Poet

  Prejudices, Third Series ch. 3 (1922)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Energy

  "The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963-1975 (Design as a Principle in the Arts)". Book edited by Jean O'Grady and Eva Kushner, March 14, 2009.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't blindly follow any leader.

  Marguerite Young

  Leader

  7 Copy quote

• Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Atheism, Facts, Illusion

  15 Copy quote

• Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Real, Track

  15 Copy quote

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Brain, Awful

  7 Copy quote

• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  Chauncey Wright

  Character, Facts, Individual

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

  Wayne Dyer

  Single Mom, Destiny, Ideas

  8 Copy quote