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Quotes About Illusion

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
~ Paul Simon
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.
~ Richard Anderson
life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
~ Anne Sexton
Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do
~ Porsha Stewart
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
~ H. G. Wells
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.
~ Joan Didion
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.
~ Madonna Ciccone
You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.
~ Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
~ Saul Bellow
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
~ Kristin Hannah, Angel Falls
My life exists in an imagined reality.
~ Mandy Patinkin
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
~ Ian McDonald, Brasyl
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
~ Neil Gaiman
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.
~ Colleen Houck, Tiger's Voyage