Quotes About Illusion

Jorgen Weight stepped into the infirmary, flight helmet under his arm. Perhaps he should have stowed the helmet, but there was no rule requiring it - and he felt good carrying it. It made hime feel ready to fly at a moment's notice. Gave him the illusion that he was in control. - Jorgen; Starsight: Brandon Sanderson, Skyward Series

All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu had said. When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Your hallucination has hallucinations." "Yes.

And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?

I tried my best to hide this , the Stormfather said. "So we could continue living a lie?" It is, in my experience, the thing men do best.

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay.

Power is an illusion of perception." Shallan frowned. "Don't mistake me," Jasnah continued. "Some kinds of power are real—power to command armies, power to Soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think. On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's live.

The illusion without Lightweaving is superior, Design." "Because it's fake?" "Because the audience knows it's fake," Wit said. "When they watch and let themselves be amazed, they are joining in the illusion. They're giving you something vital. Something powerful. Something essential. Their belief.

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.

I'm not a hallucination," J.C. snapped. "I have state-of-the-art stealthing equipment.

Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.

The tree slowly fell over, playing dead.

There is a secret you must learn, child," Jasnah said. "A secret that is even more important than those relating to Shadesmar and spren. Power is an illusion of perception.

Siempre fui un sueño. Un sueño maravilloso. Quizá el primero jamás concedido por una pesadilla...

you know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details?

participants who thought they were not susceptible or vulnerable to deceptive advertising were, in fact, the most vulnerable. The researchers' explanation for this phenomenon says it all: "Far from being an effective shield, the illusion of invulnerability undermines the very response that would have supplied genuine protection.

Far from being an effective shield, the illusion of invulnerability undermines the very response that would have supplied genuine protection.

Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.

A poet has written, "The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free." Just as the sunrise of faith requires the sunset of our former unbelief, so the dawn of trust requires letting go of our craving spiritual consolations and tangible reassurances. Trust at the mercy of the response it receives is a bogus trust.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

And all the qualities she loved about me … they're not real. They are the qualities of a fictional character who is actually very, very different from me. This is a mirage called acting. Surrounded by another mirage called celebrity.

there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.