Quotes About Illusionary

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

In this liminal space, subjectivities multiply and a teenage hacker can become beautiful leather-clad Silk, the sex between 'her' and Cerise as real as it is illusionary, a performance that lasts only as long as the machine code that translates and enables it.

All that glitters is not gold, and things that look warm are often cold!

It was one of those things that gave you a false feeling of soldering.

Any of the others can clutch a phantom!

This world is full of forms that are illusory, and the values are all wrong, the proportions are out of focus. The things which a man of the world thinks valuable, a spiritual man must cast aside as worthless.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

Tutti i fenomeni o sono illusori o la ragione di essi ci sfugge, inesplicabile. Manca affatto alla nostra conoscenza del mondo e di noi stessi quel valore obiettivo che comunemente presumiamo di attribuirle. È una costruzione illusoria continua.

The life gives the half pain & the other half to a married man is given by his wife; but he who has not realized it might have been just conditioned by his spouse to believe in an illusionary mind situation.

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

On a cloth untrueWith a twisted cueAnd elliptical billiard balls.

It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.

Why use a spell, where mummer's tricks will serve?

As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.

it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

Disneyland is the only people trap operated by a mouse.

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

She looked like something that might have occurred to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.