Quotes About Illusion

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.