Quotes About Illusion

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

There is nothing as unreal as life.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Reality: What a concept!

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.