Quotes About Illusion

who always had a beautiful girl on his arm. You get used to lying, Myron. It gets easier, you know what I mean? The lies become a sort of second reality.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as right or wrong. But I'm saying what may work for some doesn't work for others. You talked before about your mother confusing memories with illusion. But that's okay. That's how she survives. Some people need illusions. And some people, like you, need answers." Kat

Memories aren't kept on some microchip in the skull or filed away in a cabinet somewhere deep in our cranium. Memories are something we reconstruct and piece together. They are fragments we manufacture to create what we think occurred or even simply hope to be true. In short, our memories are rarely accurate. They are biased reenactments. Shorter still: We all see what we want to see.

Surroundings are irrelevant. Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

I didn't say it was. I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac." Corinne

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

All that is gold does not glitter.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.