Serj Tankian Quotes

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.

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.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Most people like to live in illusions.

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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

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.

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

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

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

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Hope is the denial of reality.

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.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

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.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.