Quotes About Illusion

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.