Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that? — Barbet Schroeder
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. — Marc Maron
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman
Vision without execution is just hallucination. — Henry Ford
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them. — Oliver Sacks
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. — Steve Case
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. — Minna Antrim
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind. — Prince
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion ! — Rumi
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison
Short Hallucination Quotes
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. — George Bernard Shaw
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! — William Shakespeare
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? — William Shakespeare
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations — Aleister Crowley
Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Eddie Rickenbacker
If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you. — Scott Adams
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson
Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations? — Alice Liddell
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. — Alan Watts
Hallucination Image Quotes
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Seeing Things As They Are Quotes
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. — Anais Nin
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. — Saint Augustine
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
Vision without execution is hallucination.
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization. — Alexander Graham Bell
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. — Nicholas Sparks
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. — Oscar Wilde
Vision without execution is hallucination.
If we think everyone is a reflection of ourselves, we fail to see things as they are. We see things as we are. — Jay Shetty
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. — George Santayana
There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own? — Lao Tzu
We see things as we are, not as they are. — Leo Rosten
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though. — Yayoi Kusama
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
Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens. — Hannah Hoch
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense. — Julian Jaynes
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. — Thomas Pynchon
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation. — M. John Harrison
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is. — Barbara Christian
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination. — Julia Serano
Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination. — Mikhail Bulgakov
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to. — Haruki Murakami
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds. — Louis Zamperini
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. — H. L. Mencken
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson
Shut up, me" Leo said out loud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool. — Rick Riordan
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. — Dan Barker
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it. — Ben Horowitz
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
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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 the way of the hallucinations. — Alan Moore
I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon. — Brian Wilson
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination. — Eckhart Tolle
I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating. — Grace Slick
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. — Michel Foucault
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz
I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives. — Marguerite Yourcenar
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
We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid. — A. R. Rahman
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