#irrational

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely. ↗

— Iain Pears

#cloud-cuckoo-land #desires #dreams #futility #imagination

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#bundle #fears #i #i am #irrational

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is. ↗

— Julien Smith

#anxiety #courage #courageous #facing-fear #fear

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#flower #irrational #romanticism #dreams

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#irrationality #memory #food

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. ↗

— Martin Amis

#atheism #dignity #irrationality #reason #religion

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#because #been #i #i think #irrational

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational