Quotes About Illusion

There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.

We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people - super-parents, super-kings, and queens, super-cops - to be our gods and to look after us - to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba - or like a cancer. Chaos.

I startled it. No, I shocked it profoundly—and it transmitted to me the full impact of that shock. Its multisensory illusions felt more real than things that actually happened, and this was worse than an illusion. This was a sudden, swift cycling of its own intense surprise and fear. From me to it to me. Closed loop. I

Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.

Humans are freer to decide what they want," he said softly. "They only think they are," Dehkiaht replied.

Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it?

All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched.

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.

At birth he enters the realm of dreams only to awaken to reality at death.

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.

Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.

They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero!

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!

Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without suger-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.

Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without sugar-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.

?wiat si? sko?czy?, cho? zatrzyma? pozory trwania. Tak wygl?da prawdziwy koniec.

It's a feature of flashlights that they're only visible in the daytime.

Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

I could not but smile to hear her talking in this lofty strain, but I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.