Mark Barrowcliffe Quotes

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

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.

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.

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.

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

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.

Most people like to live in illusions.

It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.