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Quotes About Illusion

The invitation to rot obliviously, to die without feeling it, to grow old looking young, is everywhere in this glorious, sunny, multi-colored city.
~ John Rechy
Most asteroids, like most politicians, give off more heat than light.
~ John S. Lewis
There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
~ John Searles
Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
~ John Shirley
History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken
~ John Sladek
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
~ John Steinbeck
High characters (cries one), and he would seeThings that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.
~ John Suckling
Güç, hiçbir zaman göründüÄŸü yerde deÄŸildir.
~ John Taylor Gatto
The myth of a golden age of public schooling is the creation of Ell-wood P. Cubberley, Dean of Teacher Education at Stanford University. There never was such a thing.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.
~ John Twelve Hawks
I like hotels where you can check in at an electronic kiosk and never have to speak to a desk clerk. I dislike a gold-wrapped chocolate on my pillow, a turned-down sheet, a bathroom towel folded so that it resembles a flower, or any other "personal touch" that gives humans the illusion that they are surrounded by a friendly universe. In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
~ John Twelve Hawks
The Grid still exists even if you don't see the lines
~ John Twelve Hawks
You've seen the razzle-dazzle; here's the bitter reality.
~ John Varley
If you can pretend well enough to fool someone else, you might even fool yourself.
~ John Varley
QYou can not change the color of a room using the same color paint.
~ John W Clark
It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface:
~ John W. Whitehead
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
~ John Webster
FERDINAND: Look, what's that follows me? MALATESTE: Nothing, my lord. FERDINAND: Yes. MALATESTE: 'Tis your shadow. FERDINAND: Stay it; let it not haunt me. MALATESTE: Impossible, if you move, and the sun shine. FERDINAND: I will throttle it. [Throws himself upon his shadow.]
~ John Webster
Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water.
~ John Webster
Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
~ John Webster
One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist.
~ John Wilkinson
El lobo se vestía con piel de cordero y el rebaño consentía el engaño.»
~ John William Polidori
You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you—that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else.
~ John Williams