Quotes About Illusion

If everything in a dream were realistic, it would have no power over us; if everything were unreal, we would feel less involved in its pleasures and fears. Its fusion of the two is what makes it haunting.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons—money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.

Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.

We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

What people lack in life is not more reality but illusion, fantasy, play.

when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

We think we are judging the younger generation in an objective manner, but we are merely succumbing to an illusion of perspective. It is also true that we are probably experiencing some hidden envy of their youth and mourning the loss of our own.

Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR)

As long as your knife keeps pretending it's a mini sun, we should be all right.

There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast. They were always wrong.

I thought I saw a puddy tat." He grinned. "You did, you did.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion.

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think. A

There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.