Quotes About Illusion

Sunsets.The illusion either above the horizon or below it. When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.

Life, the universe and everything is a time illusion.Khalid Masood

No one is perfect till you make some feel you are perfect

The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.

When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

Was the reality quite what he had been telling himself it was?

It would be so easy to forget, so easy to be enticed by an old dream.

Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.

Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.

Of course, it was all a wild dream, anyway. She could never enter into high society again.

How foolish of her to have fallen into a dream.

There had been a fairy-tale quality about the day. It had not seemed as real as others.

There is no such thing as the love you are looking for. It is only in your dreams. If that is so . . . then I think I would prefer my dreams to your reality, Jack.

This strange gladness, this elation, would not outlive the return of common sense and cold reality.

You must not look for a grand romance, you know, however much you always enjoy it between the pages of a book.

I will treat it as a fantasy. A romantic fantasy. I will make you fall in love with me all over again.

His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John

Within himself, Tom Fisher smiles serenely. It's almost too easy. Promise these morons something they want. Let them believe in it. Then take it away. And tell them who's to blame.

Put ordinary shitheads in impressive uniforms, give them guns and permission to use them, they'll shoot anyone who threatens their illusions