Quotes About Illusion

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination

the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.

Creemos que sabemos mucho, pero en realidad no sabemos más que una rata en una trampa, una rata con la espalda rota que aún cree que quiere vivir.

When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, Jesus, that was a great special effect. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' Have I answered your question?

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.

Time-travelers lie a lot.

Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Who can remember the pangs and sweetness of those early years? We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused us to rave during a high fever.

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins.

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

The true world was behind it.

Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.

Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM.

The audience burst into applause and hallelujahs. I kept trying to make sense of it, and kept coming up short. Here were people who routinely used their computers to stay in touch with their friends and get the news of the day, people who took weather satellites and lung transplants for granted, people who expected to live lives thirty and forty years longer than those of their great-grandparents. Here they were, falling for a story that made Santa and the Tooth Fairy look like gritty realism.

A veces los locos pueden imitar increíblemente bien la cordura.