Quotes About Illusion

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

Time is making fools of us again.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. I

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

People go through life thinking they're making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all.

When I got older I realized that the majority of people in Miller's Valley were the most discontented kind of Americans, working people whose situations hadn't risen or fallen over generations, but who still carried a little bit of those streets-paved-with-gold illusions and so were always annoyed that the streets were paved with tar. If they were paved at all. Maybe

Obviously I was mistaken.