Quotes About Illusion

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.