Quotes About Illusion

Looks can be decieving

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.

Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It's only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres

Tous prétendent vrai leur vision de vie mais toute vision peut s'avérer n'être qu'une illusion

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres Shikamaru Nara

Trump acted at once the emperor and the boy who said that the emperor has no clothes, ripping the illusory cover of decency off the system, forcing everyone to stare at its obscene nature. Unlike the emperor in the fairy tale, though, Trump felt no shame and so was not transformed by the exposure—rather, he transformed the system, once again stripping away the moral aspiration of politics.

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.

But if there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make, one blind spot, it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.

Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity.

That's what her kind of politics is all about, right? The past is this sacred, glorified thing? Even though it never really existed in the first place." I

It's probably unhealthy to miss a life that never actually existed—to

How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book.

The Core truth of Jerusalem today, it seems to me, is a jagged dislocation between appearance and reality. Whatever you see here is not really what's going on.

Seht ihr den Mond dort stehen? Er ist nur halb zu sehen, Und ist doch rund und schön! So sind wohl manche Sachen, Die wir getrost belachen, Weil unsre Augen sie nicht sehn.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

10/30/38 Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

No moose, Stevie said. The moose is a lie.

Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

Perhaps it sounds like a wonderful thing to be born and raised in a small hotel in New York City. Lots of things sound fun until they are subjected to closer inspection. If you lived on a cruise ship, for example, you would have to do the Macarena every night of your life. Think about that.

Where does this arrogant fantasy come from?

It all feels so fake that it seems okay.