Quotes About Illusion

how hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence.

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. Almost always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.

One of the most insistent messages from my inner voice in the last few years reaffirms the feminist revelation that among the myriad hoaxes of men, the biggest and most basic is what we are socialized to perceive as real.

An actor who believes that he really is King Lear is emotionally ill.

Do not adjust the controls on your television set. The creeped-out feeling you are experiencing is all in your mind.

The art of fiction is to present reality as though it's unreality." She addresses the whole room. "Be artful. Use disguises.

God, real people are so disappointing. I'm sure she would have done it better in the box-set version.

fallen asleep, because I could have sworn I was receiving an Oscar from the Queen.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.

so I believed—what a handsome prince you raised— under the skin, what sickness to the core.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual)

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

Existen dos maneras de ser engañados: una es creer lo que no es verdad y la otra es negarse a aceptar lo que sí lo es.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?