Quotes About Illusion

The concept 'beyond', 'true world' invented in order to devalue the only world there is—in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality!

how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);

Success has always been a great liar

And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra's Breasts.

Look deeply as I have into the gas-lit faces in the streets around us, in the streets of any American city, and you will see a carefully dissembled maniacal hatred, a hooded yet furnace-red glare—

In our modern world, illusion and greed generally walk hand in hand. The Black Gondolier

Of course not," Fay denied with a bright incredulous laugh. "Who'd want to loaf around in an imaginary world and take a chance of missing out on what his tickler's doing?—I mean, on what his tickler has in store for him—what he's told his tickler to have in store for him.

Quien miente con arte se acerca a la verdad más de lo que imagina.

Always it had been the same; leaders arose holding before men the illusion of vast, glorious promises while they carefully led them into hells of lost dreams and broken promises.

Lord, what romantical fools men were, to overpass the known and good in order to strain and stretch after the mysterious merely unknown. Were dreams simply better than reality? Had fancy always more style?

Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never will appear with scars.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn't exist.

a hitetlenség erÅ'sebb a hitnél, mert az érzékekre támaszkodik.

La persistencia de su recuerdo le aumentaba la rabia. Cuando despertó pensando en él, al día siguiente del entierro, logró quitarselo de la memoria con un simple gesto de la voluntad. Pero la rabia volvía siempre, y muy pronto se dio cuenta que el deseo de olvidarlo era el más fuerte estímulo para recordarlo. Entonces se atrevió a evocar por primera vez, vencida por la nostalgia, los tiempos ilusorios de aquel amor irreal

Los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidaron en cuerpo y alma las ilusiones del por venir.

Así resulta que la irrealidad tiene poder sobre la realidad.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

It was funny how you thought you remembered someone. You sketched their face boldly in your mind, but when you saw them again, you realized how far you were from their true likeness. Had he always been that height, for example? Had he moved the way he did, long strides as he reached the table? Had he smiled at her like that? Maybe she'd constructed false memories of him, fake angles.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

Can you imagine the first time they figured out how to mechanically raise somebody up through the stage and make them appear, or drop them down on a rope or a wire? It blew everybody's minds, I'm sure.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.