Quotes About Illusion

Opasno je naginjati se nad tu?om prazninom, a u pustoj želji da se u njoj, kao na dnu bunara, ogleda svoje sopstveno lice; jer i to je taština. Taština nad taštinama.

Kozorogi, što me nisi poštedeo toga! Što si mi pomogao da srušim spomenik od zlata, od mesa, od mese?ine. Euridiko sliko, Euridiko senko, Euridiko — kurvo kamenjarko!

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?

She senses, for the first time, how far away one can be from one's own life, how contentedly distant. The gaping enormity of the universe, its endless possibility… She feels it, an aura, an inkling - the illusion of absolute freedom.

The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

Romantic love is pure fantasy. It destroys a woman's common sense; there simply is no place for it within the walls of a rational mind. You're better off eating a plug of chocolate!" Rachel in Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less.

It appears that the reporter has passed along some words without inquiring what they mean, and you are expected to read them just as uncritically for the happy illusion they give you of having learned something. It is all too reminiscent of an old definition of the lecture method of classroom instruction: a process by which the contents of the textbook of the instructor are transferred to the notebook of the student without passing through the heads of either party.

The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.

Reality is just a slap on the face dancing in the moonlight.

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It's not like what I read

What happened at the end of our last story is something called misdirection. It's what happens when you are led to believe that something is true, but in reality it's not true at all. Misdirection happens a lot in real life- especially in politics, history, education, medicine, marketing, science, religion, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch.

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter's duel with the Ministry of Magic.

People believe what they want to believe, lad. It's very hard to believe in anything that will make you unhappy.

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

None of this is real.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

For magicians -- whether modern entertainers or indigenous, tribal sorcerers -- have in common the fact that they work with the malleable texture of perception.

U nekom trenutku sve pri?e postaju iste, kaže pripoveda?, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripoveda?, da se onaj koj sluša ili ?ita pri?u navede na pomisao da je pri?a koju upravo sluša ili ?ita ipak druga?ija od ostalih. Pripovedanje je, dakle, zavaravanje, kaže pripoveda?, pri?a je, zna?i, laž. (Pripovedanje i pri?a)

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

What is is?' 'I don't know. I don't even know if it's true or if it's a dream.' 'That's alright. Truth and Dreams are always getting muddled.