Quotes About Illusion

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination.

there is a difference between "denial" and "delusion." The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy.

Simulacra and Simulation, a metatext about the meaningless "hell of simulation.

Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.

Creo que todo el mundo debería hacerse rico y famoso y conseguir lo que siempre ha soñado para darse cuenta de que no es la solución

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

L'austérité est une bonne arme contre ces moments de cafard qui changent ton âme en égout. Pour commencer, c'est toi qui reprends le contrôle, même s'il y'a des chances pour que ce ne soit que pure illusion. Ca aide au moins à limiter les dégâts, peut-être pas pour soi mais pour son entourage.

When one person sees or hears something that isn't there, it's called a delusion. When a small group of people have the same experience, it's a cult. Millions of people? Religion.

Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple. But they didn't.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

El placer estriba en que te engañen sin ser capaz de descubrir cómo lo hicieron.

Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and not a spindly six-eight either, but 232 pounds of meat and bone stacked vertically beneath a lop-sided smile and a defiant wedge of hair that gave him the appearance of an unfinished sculpture. His size always triggered unreasonable expectations.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL CROWD MODELS Delusion Model

The Illusion Model

The Illusion Model The illusion model accurately describes the process of an individual becoming part of a psychological crowd after he has a position on. (1) Affirmation (2) Repetition (3) Prestige (4) Contagion

We live in the world we made up.