Quotes About Illusion

What did I want? I wanted a life with you! And I get instead Radio City, the lights going up, "honey I love you," dancing all night, crap shooting, cellophane magic, chrome and black marble.

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

Here, you grow up believing there's a safety net, that things can never completely fall apart. Katrina showed us all that's not true.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

L'apparence est le tout du réel et du vrai – ce pourquoi il n'y a ni Réalité absolue, ni Vérité éternelle, ni Totalité sensée ou structurée. Pyrrhon

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

Être aveugle pour se croire heureux. Croire qu'on y voit clair pour ne pas chercher à y voir puisque : L'on ne peut se voir que malheureux.

We imagine we possess, and we are possessed.

It is not that I lack attention or interest....but even though I am extremely sensitive to the outside world, I can never fully believe in its reality...The real world always remains somewhat fantastic for me...I have no feeling of its reality.

One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…

It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.

In the domain of feeling, what is real is indistinguishable from what is imaginary.

Un gest ca s-o posezi ajunge s-o destrame.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures … What remains is a fleeting paradise that lives on for all time, having no need of doctrines.

Fatevi condizionare il meno possibile da una società che finge di darci il massimo della libertà.

The only fiction in pornography is the smile on the woman's face.

You tell me I'm a dreamer. Perhaps I am. But, in truth, I think it is you who seeks to escape, not I." For

North Korea's alleged penchant for irrational and erratic behavior is illusionary: the North Korean leaders actually know perfectly well what they are doing. They are neither madmen nor ideological zealots, but rather remarkably efficient and cold-minded calculators, perhaps the best practitioners of Machiavellian politics that can be found in the modern world.

Substitution . . . the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.

The only function of consciousness is to produce fabrications. True knowledge is achieved in the heart and in the soul.