Quotes About Illusion

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Imagination and reality have little in common

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn't exist.

Imagination can create lies that duals truths.

Radio was theater of the mind.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.