Quotes About Illusion

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.

Pain is the best indicator of whether something is an illusion or reality." -Kaleb

The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story

is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in a glass.

Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.

Tinseltown. Its

Tugwell had no patience for the illusion of democracy, or the pretense of being a man of the people, or the empty rhetoric of equal opportunity.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

It feels like cheap sex and spurious art to me, the spiritual equivalent of junk food; it may look like an éclair, but it's really a Twinkie.

He was the great love of her life you know.' 'Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

Nor was the monster public the only one deceived.

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

The DEVIL we are fear is only one but appear in different forms.

We're only pretending everything is normal because we don't know what else to do.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.

Nuestros sueños son más auténticos que nuestro despertar

There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong.

It's like this essential feature of human beings simply doesn't exist in the full-color magazine world.

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.