Quotes About Illusion

Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.

There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true.

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

We may assume a false sense of liberty and feel an initial resistance to putting reins on a life that we believe to be free. Yet this false sense of freedom almost always moves us further away from our true self and from real happiness.

Our brains construct a world that no one else can see, touch, or hear. Or, as Buddhist teachers sometimes say, "The truth is a pathless land.

He's a wonderful dancer,' Laurel cooed. She didn't know; she'd never danced with him. But as long as she didn't act up any more than this, he was satisfied.

there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion

She thought there was a curious hardness about her, as if her beauty was a deceptively rich topsoil, thinly spread over rock.… Finding that no one was looking in her direction, Mrs. Pollifax

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

When you are infatuated with someone,like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . .

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Time is bunk.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

All things move in time as they move in a dream; Abrupt, symbolic, like mountains seen through a rift, They tower and vanish. from The Jacaranda by Douglas Stewart

To make love to a fantasy was the second betrayal of a libertine.

was reality? Was anything real? Didn't every schizophrenic convince themselves that their reality was self-consistent and rational?

when you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; and when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

come to believe we're in a computer simulation anyway. None of this is real. We're all inside a game, and the winner is the one who gets the most points. Who amasses the most wealth and power. Even if they have to cheat.

you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander