Quotes About Illusion

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Time is a face on the water.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Time has only a relative existence.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.