Quotes About Illusion

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Time does not exist - we invented it

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.