Quotes About Illusion

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

She had expected rich chandeliers, not these morose and fungoid lamps, and the carpet was not dense and darkly red, but was thin, and it bore upon its lugubrious puce background a vapid pattern of flaxen parallelograms.

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

People seem to forget that there is a huge difference between the peace which is a gift of God and passes all understanding, and peace in the psychological sense. If we are living in a dream or illusion, or have certain psychological blocks, we should not be surprised that we become troubled when someone brings us face-to-face with reality. Sometimes we have to lose psychological peace before we can live in true peace.

L'argent est du songe pur. Le contempler, c'est faire défiler devant soi l'interminable procession des choses de ce monde.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

All the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen.

She was a woman who had never been beautiful, but who took care to appear as if she might once have been.

If I don't look in the mirror, I can go around thinking I'm gorgeous when I'm not.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Descoperea aceast? sl?biciune, îi era ciud? pe ea îns??i, dar nu p?rea s?-i reziste. Dragostea se hr?nea aÈ™adar din aceste himere, sentimentul acesta putea fi atât de impur? Uneori avea impresia c? era o juc?rie, juc?ria iluziilor ei sau juc?ria acelei fete care alterna tristeÈ›ea cu batjocura, cinismul cu naivitatea.

Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that person's soul; that you can transmute past defeats into present triumphs without understanding or mourning; that you make the unloving love you by constancy, uncomplaining availability, and molding yourself into what you thing that person wants.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

The American dream of freedom and abundance is just a child's rendering of true freedom and abundance, and serves only to convince people who haven't gone anywhere that they've already arrived.

book and magazine publishers aren't in the business of enlightenment. They're in the business of selling books and magazines, not truth, and they know that seekers will gladly pay to be reassured that, common sense aside, they can wake up and stay asleep; awakening within the dreamstate being a much more marketable solution than waking up from it. Such

Self-deceit is the hardest habit to break cuz it tells us we ain't self-deceived.