Quotes About Illusion

It is amazing how full a life a man can lead without for one moment being alive at all, except sometimes when sleeping.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.

Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.

The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

It is not so much by any power inherent in himself that the magician works, as by the ductility of that material of gaping credulity upon which he operates.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

The world is deceived by nothing. It must be given something by which to seem deceived.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.