Quotes About Illusion

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.

My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.

Qué es la felicidad? Nada. Una palabra para designar algo que siempre ocurre en el pasado, y, como siempre ocurre en el pasado, resulta que nunca ocurrió.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting.

As if my past life was revealed to be a waste, a gesture in slow motion, because what I considered scarce and precious was in fact plentiful and cheap, and what I counted as rapid progress turned out to be glacially slow. The

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She stays there listening to the burbling mantra, the chant that never ceases, repeating its message that all is one. What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.

What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.

Rune, smiling, reenters the illusion that is the world.

I used to pretend a lot. I'm very good at it,

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

Du und alle Erben des Wohlstands, die glauben, das Leben sei eine Frage perfektionierter Gefühle. Ihr irrt euch.

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see. Not until I sat in that room, with the dead vehicle that had carried my brother through his life, and for which I had always mistaken him.

Certainly there'd been posters around for Sun Moon's movies, but they must not have seemed to apply to him. Now

If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies...But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Drodzy s? i widziani we ?nie przyjaciele, Gdy prawdziwych na jawie widzim tak niewiele.