Quotes About Illusion

On the other hand, he firmly believed that ignorance was bullshit, not bliss.

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Where does unbelief begin? / When I was young // there were degrees of certainty. / I could say, Yes I know that I have two hands. / Then one day I awakened on a planet of people whose hands / occasionally disappear–

All lovers believe they are inventing love.

And yet hope turns out to be let's face it mostly delusion a word derived from Latin ludere meaning "to play a game with oneself or others"...

Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.

The poached egg on your plate at breakfast is not dirt. The poached egg on page 202 of the Greek lexicon in the library of the British Museum is dirt.

Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.

A foghorn sounding through fog makes the fog seem to be everything.

Why not keep moving it's true every epitaph calls out to the passerby but the marks are a trap the mourning is irrelevant I knew a man who dreamed his backside was made of glass and dared not sit down for 7 months

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Far below were the limestone flats they called the Flaggy Shore; grey rocks under a grey sky, and there were days when the sea was a glittering grey and your eyes could not tell if it was dusk or dawn, your eyes were always adjusting. It was like the rocks took the light and hid it away. And that was the thing about Boolavaun, it was a place that made itself hard to see.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it.

Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it's all gone, the whole world falls apart.

It was built on air and ghosts…it was truly beautiful but it died…because it tried to get real and it was never real.

Next I dream the love is swallowing itself. Next I dream the love is made of glass," — Anne Sexton, from "The Break Away," The Complete Poems . (Mariner Books; First Mariner Books Edition (April 28, 1999) Originally published September 30th 1981.

In a dream, you are never eighty.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

One just had to admire his deluded self-confidence.

She like imaginary men best of all.