Quotes About Illusion

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.