Gillian Flynn Quotes

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

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.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

Keep your head on your shoulders - even when you think your head is on your shoulders, sometimes it isn't!

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.