Quotes About Illusion

Admit it: you Photoshopped your carnates.

You said you might get a wee bit bigger, or some bullshit. Everything you say is bullshit!" And she'd bought his every line—believing herself halfway in love with him.

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

Over-attachment for one's close relatives is simply born of ignorance. Every creature in the world is born alone and dies alone. He experiences the results of his own good and evil deeds and in the end leaves the present body to accept another. The belief that one person is the relation of another is nothing more than illusion.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all," he answered sadly.

Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.

Exactly so! declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. I am a humbug. But

The Great and Terrible Humbug

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me

No; you are all wrong," said the little man, meekly. "I have been making believe." "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?

Indeed, the crown alone betokened majesty; in all else the, Scarecrow King was but a simple scarecrow—flimsy, awkward, and unsubstantial.

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don't realize is perfection is terrifying.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.