Quotes About Illusion

If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter.

I'm programmed so that only you two can see my old Aura. Everyone else sees an entirely different guy. Boom. Amazing, I know.

A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good?

ghostly forms of darkness in the heat mirage,

False hope. Guess that's better than no hope at all.

Beatriz se llevó mi nariz, en un desliz.

And after that the dream faded,

idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart could anticipate the hours of terror which he had laid up for himself. Sounds, real or imaginary, the silences and secrets of the night, the working of his own mind, skilled in cruel illusion and rich in evil fancy, would find him without recourse.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.

The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they were great powers by default, and their appearance of strength and solidity was no more than an illusion.

Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.

In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR

Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus

I could now look down at ghostly fingers, wraith-like toes, and a phantom wang.

He sat the silver disk between Poocher's shoulder blades. The pig turned around in a circle, as if he were trying to see the disk on his back, which his fat neck wouldn't allow. After his third revolution, he closed his eyes and scrunched up his snout. His wings unfolded. He floated off the ground, looking smug. Everyone in the room knew there was something that needed to be said. But not even Hex, who'd never shown any fear of an obvious joke, dared say it.