Quotes About Illusion

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.