Quotes About Illusion

And that the hand of fate has sleight and craft to match that of any magician.

I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

we are herded to bed and the day's thin scenery topples revealing, for those who sleep, the painted props of sleep. The rest lie in the dark and wait for morning and hope, against certain belief, that what the voices tell them is not true.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. — Janet Frame, Faces in the Water . (The Women's Press Ltd December 31, 1985)

There was something of the wildwood in the man who came and went illusive as moonlight moving through the branches.

Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. Savannah

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

She says getting lost in a book is a magic trick, which means that I'm a wizard.

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

The alleged benefits of diversity seem illusory to the people who actually experience it.

kaunein onni on illuusio onnesta.

Unelmissa me elämme elämämme etukäteen, kun sitten näemme kaiken valheeksi, emme uskalla kumota sitä.

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.

And what do the poets have to say about it? — They only lie!

You can only live in a world of make-believe for so long, before reality comes calling.

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.