Quotes About Illusion

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.

Ash turned out to be a young man half a head taller than me, broad of shoulder, clear of eye, noble of brow and empty of thought.

although of course at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation, lunchtime was an illusion.

But I've learned that just because something isn't real doesn't mean it's not important.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.

M-am holbat la el. Nu credeam în fantome sau zâne sau zei, iar în ultimele câteva zile eram ca un om care privea la un spectacol de magie – m? a?teptam ca un magician s? p??easc? din spatele unei cortine ?i s? îmi cear? s? aleg o carte, oricare. Nu eram preg?tit s? cred în fantome, îns? asta e chestia cu experin?a empiric? – e realitatea.

It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement.

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

I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

one I had— The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you'd forgotten was there.

The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

It's like there is a video game inside his head except what happens there will happen here.

The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.

William Gerbers" was a German-Swiss businessman living in Liverpool who had been conjured into being by Garbo before he even arrived in Britain.

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

Imitation docks and an oil storage complex were constructed by set builders from Shepperton Studios following plans drawn up by the architect Basil Spence. King George VI's tour of this impressive and entirely unusable installation was duly reported in the press for the Germans to read.

The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.

As the Battle of Normandy raged, the Germans held fast to the illusion, so carefully planted and now so meticulously sustained, that a great American army under Patton was preparing to pounce and the German forces in the Pas de Calais must remain in place to repel it.

He had to learn how not to let his eyes be bewildered by manifestations, and thereby learn to treat appearances as signs and codes of the interior.

Is there anything more real than what we have created in our minds?