"Note for a moment do I take you for a truth that is real,' Ivan exclaimed in what even amounted to fury. 'You are a falsehood, you are my illness, you are a ghost. Only I do not know how to destroy yo..."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends."
- Henry V. O'Neil
"Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely ag..."
- John W. Loftus
"Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting."
- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
"One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Bi..."
- Kevin Barry
"At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the grotesque and the horrible kept close company. Prostrate, as i..."
- Jean Lorrain
"I wish you were here,” I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. May..."
- Beth Revis
"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows."
- Anthony Liccione
"There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight..."
- Teju Cole