Quotes About Illusion

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Movies are different from real life.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.