Quotes About Illusion

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Media is Munchausen by proxy.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

No artist tolerates reality.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Una piscina. Una bahía rocosa. Una parcela vacía. Un faro. Una torre. Estas cosas son reales y no lo son. Existen y no existen.