Quotes About Illusion

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Life is an illusion that last too little.

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.

Even those modern secularists and liberals who hate the metaphysics illustrated by Plato's allegory of the cave thrill to the idea that the common man is in the grip of illusion and ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings, even if their idea of a philosopher-king would have filled Plato with abject horror.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

I sympathize with the guys who went to go see The Phantom Menace and convinced themselves that it wasn't as bad as it was. Phantom Menace is worse, I would argue, than Star Trek ever was, but we were kind of in denial. There were some beautiful shots of the Enterprise and we got to see some Klingons, so it wasn't a total disaster, but in large part it was pretty boring.

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.