Quotes About Illusion

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.

This is the nature of the club scene, after all: being surprised by the familiar and pretending it's new.

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

After all, when one goes out into the city with the sole goal of capturing the city, only to discover that the city is nothing but a restless shifting of scaffolding, then one must refrain from going out.

I just . . . I built him up in my mind so much." "Too much reading." "In my head, he was this kind of lost romantic hero." "He can't get lost, he drives a train.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

The GOLD in Golden years was identified by the sight impaired. It is actually Rust!!