Quotes About Illusion

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour. (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Nothing is real but dreams and love.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.