Quotes About Illusion

Maldita ciencia. Es aún peor que la magia". - Caul Escalofríos

fine lies beat tedious truths every time,

If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid." "The

God! Why did she insist on demanding from people what she knew they could never give her? Why did she insist on making the same mistakes over and over? Why was she fooled so easily every time? Because she wanted to be fooled.

Jezal was beginning to doubt that anyone in a position of high authority ever really knew what they were doing. The best one could hope for was to maintain some shred of an illusion that one might.

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

Command was a trick. You had to spread the illusion that you knew what you were doing as deep and as wide through your men as you could. Spread the illusion and hope for the best.

All was repeated in the still mirror of the lake below – another, shadowy world, upside down beneath his own.

People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists.

They're in there? Morveer and his little echo?

No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on.

One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself. Some kinds of power are nothing but tricks of the mind.

Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is

The more we use our senses to define reality, the more we experience separation.

Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.

It was bad enough that she had been so utterly convinced he had a brilliant mind, but much worse to discover he was convinced of it, too, and on such thin evidence. It

What frightened him was not the thought that he was a prisoner of Charlie Manx but that for a moment he had forgotten he was a prisoner. For a moment he had been admiring the light and feeling almost happy.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star

was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever.

Falling in love in high school is like thinking you can fly a 747 because you know how to fly a kite.

This is the way people dream of being kissed, a movie star kiss

The boulder they had been standing on wasn't a boulder.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love