Quotes About Illusion

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

A new life? There's not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

I can't run around falling in love with fantasies.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

color isn't a fixed reality but a perception.

explanations, like dreams, only make sense while they're happening.

We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not all that big, but at ground level, where researchers must work, it is actually enormous.

atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us is an illusion. When two objects come together in the real world—billiard balls are most often used for illustration—they don't actually strike each other. "Rather," as Timothy Ferris explains, "the negatively charged fields of the two balls repel each other Ã¢â'¬Â¦