Quotes About Illusion

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

If there's one thing I've learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.