Avril Lavigne Quotes

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

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

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

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and now you've grown a lot and your dress don't fit right your daddy's not a hero he stole your chariot so here you are in pieces trying to prove to us it's real the softness of your smile and the lies you want to feel the scales beneath your skin are showing off today there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and I have made a home here for me you'll burn it down with your fantasy

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.