Quotes About Illusion

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.

Fools follow foolishly their imaginary lookalikes as god. Such silly follies exist not. Seek 'What Is'. And is not.

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

You believe what your eyes want to believe!

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.

he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only a different colour to his own iron marble but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.

But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her to pass for stoical when she was petrified, and mysterious and aloof when she was so filled with self-doubt that she bought presents for other people when it was her birthday, framed most of her conversation in terms of apology and regret, and for all her talent could no longer manage to string twenty-five paragraphs fo prose together to make a short story.

the writing of fiction is akin to the work of a stage magician, a feat of sustained deception in which by imagery and language the trickster leads the audience to believe in the existence or possibility of a series of nonexistent or impossible things.