Quotes About Illusion

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

We see what we want to see, after all, especially when blinded by physical attraction.

Sometimes the illlusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

It was deceptive, the sunshine- it promised more than it could actually deliver.

Depression, we had learned in the group, loves a vacuum. Far better to be doing, or at least planning. Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

Ne viskas turi esm?. Yra aki? be dugno, yra širdži? išsekusi?, kaip sausmedis, ištroškusi?. Tikrov??- miražas dykumoj kartais tikresnis, negu mes patys.

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

Me gusta la lluvia antes de caer. Ya sé que no existe. Por eso es mi favorita. Porque no hace falta que algo sea de verdad para hacerte feliz, ¿no?.

the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

There is no reality, only perception.

we see faces in the clouds, but never clouds in faces, because we have special cognitive modules for face detection.

Two kinds of practice contribute to the illusion of natural talent. I call them "accidental practice" and "play as practice.

Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.

bosh," he finally said. "Ook-la. Palm trees

Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

The world is bigger and harder to understand than you think... You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

He's a ghost, not a carnival magician. -Benny Imura