Quotes About Illusion

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.

The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get this feeling like some kind of little something-or-other is there, somewhere inside me... like a burglar is in the house, hiding in a wardrobe... and it comes out every once in a while and messes up whatever order or logic I've established for myself. The way a magnet can make a machine go crazy.

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. "Hold tight," I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories

The world's crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I'm just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

Nature is actually unnatural

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side

There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, "Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equator?" I'd be in a fix. Hell, I don't even know why Wednesday follows Tuesday. I'd be an intergalactic joke

If this was a dream, then the world I'm living in itself must all be a dream.

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

The scene seemed somehow divorced from reality, although reality, he knew, could at times be terribly unreal.