Neil Young Quotes

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

I pay these niggas with a reality check.

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Is he under the influence or something?

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

It's okay to get stoned, as long as its not by other people.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.