Quotes About Illusion

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

The problem, as we've learned over time, is that the further away you are from the fruit, the lower it looks. Once you get up close, you see it's quite a bit higher than you thought. We assume that picking it will be easy only because we've never tried to do it before.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse.

That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

But you're wrong about these pictures, you're wrong about this house, and you're wrong about Teddy. There is some seriously weird shit happening right under your nose and you're living in denial!

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.

That perhaps I could walk my way to reclaiming enough of an illusion of safety to survive the next four years in this country.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that's more interesting and more fun than reality. That's the definition of being insane, surely?" said my son, Raul "I suppose so," I said. "It's like Don Quixote.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

Yo he visto a mujeres no muy guapas ponerse guapísimas en esa situación de medio olvido, no les dura más que lo que dura el polvo, sea mal dicho y a las claras.

Son demasiadas las vidas configuradas sobre el engaño o el error, seguramente la mayoría desde que el mundo existe

But even if such a prediction were true, our inability to distinguish between a virtual reality simulation and the real world will have less to do with the increasing fidelity of simulation than the decreasing perceptual abilities of us humans.

En otras palabras, si se logra reconocer los eventos de la mente como ideas y no como la realidad, automáticamente el sujeto de la experiencia se coloca en un peldaño de la realidad más libre, inclusivo y abstracto, comparado con la situación en la cual se identifica con los contenidos y los confunde con la realidad.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

If we are not careful, this false culture can dull our senses and lull us into a kind of trance, and we begin to exist in a nether world of attractive lies and half-truths.

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

what if a much of a which of a wind

Damn everything but the Circus!

the trick of finding what you didn't lose (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) the teachable imposture of always arriving at the place you never left (and i refer to thinking)rests upon a dismal misconception;namely that some neither ape nor angel called a man is measured by his quote eye cue unquote.

Where most people live, most of us, imagining it to be the real sunlit world when it is only a cave lit by the flickering fires of illusion.