Quotes About Illusion

The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence.

Globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone

I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same

Picture yourself on a train in a station With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Fantasy Man's my favourite, I think, because he's sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that's me, really!

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I hate reality shows that are not reality.

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

I was never into reality shows.

I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.

Oh, I can't stand reality television.

I don't have anything against reality TV.