Quotes About Illusion

Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.

He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.

Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The

The wisdom of the world dresses up as helpful protection while binding you to fear

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.

But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody.

Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.

Life is being dreamed. An old mirage while we live in the desert.

You cannot be free if you are contained within a fiction.

ils faisaient des ombres avec des couleurs claires (they made shadows with bright colours)

Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn't true.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.