Quotes About Illusion

It appears that he was accidentally dreaming somebody else's dream.

that was what happened when you were thinking of someone: every random stranger seemed to be that someone at first glance.

didn't paintings lie also? They showed hours instead of minutes.

Oh, weren't human beings self-deluding!

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.

The Mahabharata says, "Of all the world's wonders, which is the most wonderful? That no man, though he sees others dying all around him, believes that he himself will die.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

Being in the city all the time made everything fake, in a way. Like the buildings and bridges held up by hoverstruts, or jumping off a rooftop with a bungee jacket on, nothing was quite real there.

But doesn't real love work the other way round?" Kiralee asked. "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!

But doesn't real love work the other way round?"...... "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

GeliÅŸmiÅŸ Bat? dünyas?n?n, olanaklar? ve ihtiÅŸam?yla çok zengin olduÄŸu zannedilse de çoÄŸu zaman insan kalbindeki güzellikleri öldürür.

I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

Now I see my children and I know that they are figures in a lantern show, that their sense of permanence is an illusion, because all around us time is unstoppable.

Nothing should ever really surprise us because people are like icebergs, you only see the little bit on the top.

I wanted to have a make-believe world because I couldn't bear to live in the real one.

We drink the can, not the beverage.

Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.

4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

Kalau Tuhan tidak ada, betapa absurdnya semua ini jadinya. Bagaimana mungkin manusia bisa menahankan kemonotonan laut dan ketiadaan emosinya yang kejam. Kehidupan mereka yang diikat salib dan tersapu ombak sekedar menjadi sebuah drama absurd. Dan misionaris menghabiskan 3 tahun menyeberangi laut untuk datang ke negeri ini, betapa sia-sianya ilusi mereka.

Life is but a dream, within a dream.