Quotes About Illusion

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Life, what is it but a dream?

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow