Quotes About Illusion

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..?s the struggle of l?fe.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.