Quotes About Illusion

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

He had delusions of adequacy.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

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

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it...

It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic.

The euphoria of the in-love state gives us the illusion that we have an intimate relationship. We feel that we belong to each other. We believe we can conquer all problems.

The euphoria of the "in-love" state gives us the illusion that we have an intimate relationship.

Little by little, the illusion of intimacy evaporates, and the individual desires, emotions, thoughts, and behavior patterns assert themselves. They are two individuals. Their minds have not melded together, and their emotions mingled only briefly in the ocean of love.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?)

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake , a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

If only beauty could explain the world away.

The best fiction is the fiction of self-delusion. It contrasts the banality of our self-made fictions against the hopelessness of the world as it really is. The worst thing that we can tell you at a place like Princeton is that you can have it all." He scanned the small group around him and brushed the leathery buttons holding his vest tightly over his large body. "Well," he said. "You can't.

We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.

Hullo… the wall is a looking-glass!

But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world!

Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball;