Quotes About Illusion

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

There's no truth anymore.

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

The truth is not so good a story.

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.