Quotes About Illusion

the distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.

nonsense can also be real

All wishes, however wrongheaded, however great or noble or ephemeral, must have an object, and that object is usually more ideal than real.

I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

The truth is that the world and our fantasies often overlap.

The page can resurrect what's lost and what's dead, what's not there anymore and what was never there.

More than anything, the pictures had altered my vision of George. The graceful young man with long dark hair and beautiful manners had spawned a double, and it was this second man, the one I didn't know, who fascinated me.

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

Perhaps I wished for something rather than nothing--a smack of passion to make me believe I was really there for him, not missing. And then the blow rises up from imaginary depths. When there is nothing, the phantoms come up to fill the emptiness. It is not true that nothing comes of nothing. There is always something.

Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

In love, anger is always false.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.