Quotes About Illusion

Depending on how you look at things. Your world could change completely. His thought, was that most people bend over backwards to fit everything that happened to them into something that they could understand. In other words, people some times twisted what was actually in front of them to fit what they they thought should be there, and never even realize they were doing it. People like to see what they were supposed to see and find what they were supposed to find.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

You say you lost your faith But that's not where it's at You had no faith to lose And you know it

So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn't want it in my house. Oedipus went looking for the truth and when he found it, it ruined him. It was a cruel horror of a joke. So much for the truth. I was gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth and what you heard depended on which side you were standing. If I ever did stumble on any truth, I was gonna sit on it and keep it down.

with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...

They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

But it grieves my heart, love, To see you tryin' to be a part of A world that just don't exist. It's all just a dream, babe, A vacuum, a scheme, babe, That sucks you into feelin' like this. I can see that your head Has been twisted and fed By worthless foam from the mouth. I can tell you are torn Between stayin' and returnin' On back to the South. From To Ramona

reality has too many heads

Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

I can hear the turning of the key I've been deceived by the clown inside of me I thought that he was righteous but he's vain Oh, something's a-telling me I wear the ball and chain My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost He's always off somewhere when I need him most

all is phony.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

Some of the people who camp out at the mailbox mistake aircraft running lights for UFOs. When a plane's in its final flight path the lights seem to just hover, especially since it comes in almost straight over the mailbox.

He immediately corrected that thought; he had no idea what reality was

The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

the West Wing was hurtling toward a strange new reality. A fantasy.

I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Siamo il nostro ricordo, Siamo museo immaginario di mutevoli forme, Mucchio di specchi rotti. Cambridge da Elogio dell'ombra

Useless to tell myself that a dream and the memory of yesterday are the same thing

Con alivio, con humillación, con terror, comprendió que él también era una apariencia, que otro estaba soñándolo.

Men who are not free always idealize their bondage.