Quotes About Illusion

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

Truth is the safest lie.

Behind every mask... is another mask.

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.