Quotes About Illusion

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

My entire life has been a lie.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.