“Maybe your brain invented me to distract you from the fact that eventually your eyes are gonna stop blinking and your mouth will stop chewing and your blood will stop pumping and then you're gonna shit yourself. And that's it.”— Dan Kwan, Manny, Daniel Radcliffe, imdb.com
“A delusion starts like any other idea, as an egg. Identical on the outside, perfectly formed. From the shell, you’d never know anything was wrong. It’s what’s inside that matters.”— Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern, Narrator, Jon Hamm, imdb.com
“Our minds, it turns out, are very good at persuading us to follow intuitions about happiness that turn out to be entirely wrong.”— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com
“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small…”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com
“If you need me, I'll be creating an imaginary world just to stay alive.”— April Eileen Henry, boredpanda.com
“Together, you break down each other's delusions, the lies we tell ourselves, the lies that we tell others.”— John O'Connor, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”— Paul Watzlawick, giorgionardone.com
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the drea…”— Scott Spencer, amazon.com