Quotes About Illusion

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.