Marc Maron Quotes

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

It's scary, the way your mind can overpower what is real and what is right.

Reason is the illusion of reality

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Reality doesn't interest me.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.