Quotes About Illusion

The law is where reality goes to die.

Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

Než si totiž po?ídíte d?ti, život ob?as dokonce odpovídá vašim p?edstavám a zám?r?m. Po?ád m?žete mít iluzi, že ho máte pod kontrolou - a to je pocit, který skute?né rodi?e už dávno opustil.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive.

We often think we know things when in fact it's only our imagination taking us further and further away from what is actually happening. What we imagine then seems very real to us. Soon we're caught up in our imaginary longings and loathings. But if you're here - truly present - you realize there's nothing to run from or to go after. You can stay calm...Just be with this moment and see what's going on. (9)

It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.

The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in … the separation of self and other.

It hadn't turned out at all like the picture in the cookbook, that loaf. It looked like a roll of fiberglass insulation coated in gravel.

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

He lied with a smile that paralyzed reason." [Abby Chandlis - main character of The List]

You live in a world of illusion Where everything's peaches and cream We all face a scarlet conclusion But we spend our time in a dream

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.

Future is purely a mental construct — an illusion — because you never exist in the future, only in the present. By using a consistent, internally congruent vision of the future to make decisions day after day, you start to build momentum, and you'll ultimately achieve your goals.

He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.

it is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.

doubt is less easily dispelled than illusion, and with doubt come tentative half-measures—and nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished by tentative half-measures.

You can always say it's magic if you don't understand it; and, who knows, you might be right.

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.