Quotes About Illusion

Hay gentes dispuestas a creer lo increíble porque les resulta más consolador que afrontar la realidad

Defiendo la democracia burguesa que nos permite la ilusión de creer que gozamos de libertad, eso es todo.

Everyone looked better at a distance. Everyone sounded sweetest when you did not have to hear them talk too long.

People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.

His memory of her never quite lived up to the enchanting reality of her face.

She inched forward, although she wasn't sure why. If the dowager started spouting off about the highwayman and his resemblance to her favorite son, it wasn't as if she would be able to stop her. But still, the proximity at least gave the illusion that she might be able to prevent disaster.

Maybe all this sadness building up inside of her was for the death of a dream. Her dream of him. She'd built up the perfect image of him in her mind, and with every word he spat in her face, it was becoming more and more obvious that her dream was quite simply wrong.

It's hard to believe that someone is gone when he looks so normal and at peace.

Nothing is ever as complicated as it is in one's mind.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

None of us have it all together; it just seems that way on Instagram.

Instagram is kind of a big lie at the end of the day.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Ever since I was a kid and watched magicians on stage, like David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy, I instantly knew how they did everything. In my head, it just all worked.