“How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?...someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe that they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, and that man a herdsman- how dense!” KnowsMenWayBelieveHomeDreamLife IsHateLeftStupidYouthCallingAssumingForgottenInsightAwakeningAwakeSomedayDelusionRulersLoving LifeDense Author:Zhuangzi
“One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.” ThinkingKnowsMenMayDifferentFeelingsDreamLife IsSleepHalfPerceptionAwakeDelusionOther HalfOne HalfDreamy Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.” WritingTryingLife IsLyingEffortFictionMemoirDelusionJustifyEpic Author:Sherman Alexie