Quotes About Illusion

A real actor can't love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn't know how to love someone for the real.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Somos una errata que ha pasado inadvertida y que hace confuso un texto por lo demás muy claro; el trastocamiento de las líneas de un texto que nos hace cobrar vida de esta manera prodigiosa; o un texto que por estar reflejado en un espejo cobra un sentido totalmente diferente del que en realidad tiene.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.

Narcissists are said to be in love with themselves. But this is a fallacy. Narcissus is not in love with himself. He is in love with his reflection. There is a major difference between one's True Self and reflected-self.

She's not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is.

Humans are so good at imagining things, they invent gods who feel so real, they then betray us by not existing.

Heaven is a dream of Disneyland for those unable to act here on Earth.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

all these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Not only is nothing good or ill but thinking makes it so, but nothing is at all, except in so far as thinking has made it so.