Joseph Conrad Quotes

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

A daydream is an evasion.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.