Quotes About Illusion

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

And Anwin said, "It turned out just as an enchantment should." "But Anwin, it wasn't an enchantment really, it just—" "Yes, child, it was the greatest enchantment of all." He winked at the prince. "Gillie understood all along what the enchantment was.

Within this world of likes and dislikes, we do not perceive the myriad dharmas as they really are.

In a world out of control, the only institutions that grant him an illusion of control, that seem to offer any safety, shelter or warmth, are the "private" institutions: religion, marriage/ family, and, most recently, psychoanalytic therapy. But, as we have seen, the family is neither private nor a refuge, but is directly connected to — is even the cause of — the ills of the larger society which the individual is no longer able to confront.

There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.

Reality cannot be caught by thinking or feeling mind.

Disguise is what enhances the experience of a BLESSING!!!!

Being poor is only romantic in books.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.

When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

No one believes in his own death.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

You are not who you think you are.

I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me. How could someone take a few dots in the sky, turn them into an elaborate picture, and expect everyone to share their delusion?

La soga parecía tranquila cuando dormía sobre la mesa o en el suelo.Nadie la hubiera creído capaz de ahorcar a nadie.

aAlina Cerunda was pretty despite her seventy years. Anyone who says she wasn't is a liar. However, old people always look like they're in disguise, and that ruins everything.

A woman plays the Northumberland pipes; from where I'm sitting, on a wall at the back, it looks like she's giving physiotherapy to a small marsupial wearing callipers and smoking a bong, but the sound is haunting and hypnotic, mournful and melodic at the same time, every note somehow harmonising with the low, droning purr.