Quotes About Illusion

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A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.