Quotes About Illusion

At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. Very nice, said Briar with approval. Couldn't have done better myself Couldn't do it at all yourself, muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold. Niko looked down his nose at the boy. I beg your pardon? Briar shrugged. Just thought I'd mention it. Niko glared.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

You can smack some people in the face with a haddock and they'll still call it a mouse if a mouse is what they want to see.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Conspiracy was all around, wearing a million masks.

Mirrors taught: Perhaps there were always at least two sorts of reality, what you credited, and what was true.

I saw Volkhavaar who calls himself Kernik, he of the purple and the nails, with his pretty dragon, too.

If they wed this evening, we can let them have at least one night to imagine themselves in Paradise, before the walls of Montargo and Chenti come smashing down round their poor little ears and they know themselves in Hell instead.

What I told you, and what is true, may not be one and the same." "You do delight me. The thought of engineering more rumors seemed unexciting, not to say heavy-handed.

He stretched his crayoned mouth, and nodded, and there stood all his actors in a line, though somehow it was still hard to count them, still difficult to be sure how many of them there were.

My felicitations," he said himself aloud, and in Mercurio's tones. "You have got away.

And it's a hell of a lot easier to believe in a nudist than a werewolf

We all need the comforting illusion of stability and security in this shaky rooftop of a thing we call life. Tevye is right; we are all fiddlers, trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking our necks.

And sometimes those remembered images aren't even accurate; in revisiting some of the movies I discuss here, I've been surprised to realize that what I remember about a particular movie moment, the influential lesson that has stayed with me—how to kiss in the rain, what to say to my shell-shocked parents about their divorce, where in the linen closet to hide the liquor—sometimes doesn't actually exist in the film. It's a trick of memory

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

there is no truth beyond illusion....between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where reality comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and magic.

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

It's been said that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. A large sum of cash can create illusions of endless wealth, especially if it's a new experience.

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.

What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world...

The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.