Quotes About Illusion

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Roxanne Bland, The Underground

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!

That was the funny thing about smiles--if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.

There is no faith in the smile of the rose

I'm wearing this fake smile.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.