Quotes About Illusion

I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don't believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.

if nobody can contradict the story, then it's pseudoreal,

Andrew Mayne

the envy of my bridesmaids and girlfriends. How pretty I was and how handsome Ronnie looked. Even Sherlock Holmes couldn't detect a single doubt, a single threat, an iota of anything ominous. Was everything in life an illusion?

Books and movies are portals through which we escape from sour reality. They enable us to change our names, our history, our faces and our tomorrows, at least for a few hours. Most people don't realize they are traveling on magic carpets.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented

The colour red doesn't actually exist,' she said. 'It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.

Reality's got a lot to answer for

Sometimes, monsters are real," Tess said, rolling over, leaving me alone with the ladybug staring up at me. "Even if they don't look like monsters.

I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.

There's no reality but versions of reality.

To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle.'71

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war', wrote the Irish literary essayist Robert Wilson Lynd, 'appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what if you had a chance to see a different layer, like flipping a channel or something? Would you want to look? Even if what you saw looked like hell? Or worse?

The Matrix doesn't want you to know this!

The first theme is "connectedness". Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.

That's Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Mylisz niebo z gwiazdami odbitymi nocÄ… na powierzchni stawu.

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.