You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie Quotes

“as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.”
― Johnny Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“The more we try to eliminate the negatives in life, the more we consequently eliminate the positives.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“But if you think your deadline is real, go out in the woods and get a grizzly bear to chase you. Which of your pressing concerns seems more real now?”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“Modern society has tried very hard to be safe and secure, to keep us in the soft and protected center of our experience spectrum, and away from the perilous edges. The problem is that the edges are where all of the really good stuff is.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“The way to expand your joy is by expanding your capacity for discomfort and failure.”
― Johnny Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“It’s ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don’t want to experience is the only way to truly be human.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“human beings define their reality through misery and suffering.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“Letting yourself experience what you most don’t want to experience is the only way to truly be human.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“today, true threats are almost nonexistent.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“The fears that come with your job, your finances, or your social standing are fears of things that aren’t real.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“if you think your deadline is real, go out in the woods and get a grizzly bear to chase you. Which of your pressing concerns seems more real now?”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“If you think your job is real, get cancer and be given six months to live. Then see if you give a fuck about your job.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“There’s a song by Nine Inch Nails, called “Hurt.” The lyrics go like this: I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain… the only thing that’s real. It’d be really easy to dismiss this as the ramblings of a morose kid who grew up to become an idol for depressed teenagers, and that’s what most adults do. Kids do dumb shit, and as adults, it’s our job to explain away said dumb shit so that we don’t have to try to understand it. Dumb shit doesn’t require an explanation. It can simply be dismissed, because it’s dumb.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“I think it’s because as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“And that’s all fine and dandy until you realize that we’re hard-wired to experience all of those so-called “negative” things.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“We’ll never create a utopia, because it’s impossible to define good without having bad to compare it to. There is no pleasure without pain. There is no Heaven without Hell. The more we try to eliminate the negatives in life, the more we consequently eliminate the positives.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“In it, the currency is time. The more time you have, the longer you live. When you go broke, you don’t move into a box in an alley. You just die. And that’s a great premise for a sci-fi movie, where you could live each day in a terrifying struggle to earn a few more minutes or hours, but that’s how we live too. You could punch out tomorrow. Nobody knows.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“There are two sides to every coin. If you want to experience real emotion, you get the gamut. If you experience a level 8 emotion in one area, you get access to all emotions at level 8. And if you seek out a negative experience at level 8, you master it. Fear doesn’t blindside you because you went after it. Pain doesn’t overwhelm you because you went into it willingly, step by step. If you wanted to back off, you could have. Whatever level of discomfort you reach, you reach deliberately. You’ve met the negative head-on, on your own terms. You own it, and you’ll own it forever. And your world gets bigger. Your spectrum of experiences broadens in all directions — positive and negative. We don’t grow in a line. We grow in a sphere. If you master X, you get access to Y. That’s how it works. We seek out edges so that we can reconnect with who we really are. We are not averages and statistics. We are not the upper, middle, or lower class. We are not citizens, or constituents, or”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“We spend all our time trying to insulate ourselves from negative sensations and emotions, and we end up stunted on both ends.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“There is no pleasure without pain. There is no Heaven without Hell.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“We’ll never create a utopia, because it’s impossible to define good without having bad to compare it to.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“It’d be really easy to dismiss this as the ramblings of a morose kid who grew up to become an idol for depressed teenagers, and that’s what most adults do. Kids do dumb shit, and as adults, it’s our job to explain away said dumb shit so that we don’t have to try to understand it. Dumb shit doesn’t require an explanation. It can simply be dismissed, because it’s dumb.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“If you think your job is real, get cancer and be given six months to live. Then see if you give a fuck about your job. The”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“We’ll never create a utopia, because it’s impossible to define good without having bad to compare it to. There is no pleasure without pain. There is no Heaven without Hell.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“It’s ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don’t want to experience is the only way to truly be human. ***”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“This is the society that embraced Fight Club.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“Don’t be stupid, but test your boundaries. Do what bothers you. Do some things that hurt. Let yourself be afraid, and uncomfortable, and at your limit. If you’re scared of something, dive in the next time you experience that fear and revel in it, sampling it like a rare delicacy. Look at everything you’ve been trying not to feel and say, “Let’s try this on for size.” I don’t know about you, but I want to see what’s out there in the world. And within limits, within reason, I don’t mind if it hurts.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“The way to expand your joy is by expanding your capacity for discomfort and failure.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

“We found a cure for pain.”
― Johnny B. Truant, You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie