Quotes About Illusion

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.

All societies end up wearing masks.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

The matters I relateAre true lies.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Cum reu?e?te adev?rul s? se desprind? din aparen?ele care îl ascund ?i totodat? îl constituie? Izbucne?te, într-o seara, cu brutalitate? Sau î?i croie?te drum încet în mintea oamenilor?

Nici inteligen?a, nici talentul, nici geniul nu l-au împiedicat vreodat? pe om s? se în?ele. Ba s-ar zice c?, din contr?, ele îl ajut? s? se cufunde ?i mai departe în ceea ce constituie profunzimea ?i sumbra str?lucire a r?t?cirii.

L'amour n'a jamais le visage qu'on lui voudrait; au lieu d'être doux et discret, il encombre, il blesse.