Quotes About Illusion

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

To beguile the time, look like the time.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.