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Quotes About Illusion

Kitsch is a folding screen set up to curtain off death.
~ Milan Kundera
Un hombre con los ojos cerrados es una ruina de hombre.
~ Milan Kundera
The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words
~ Patrick Marber
The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!
~ Paulo Coelho
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
~ Peggy Lipton
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
True Love. I'm starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney." — Cupcake
~ Rachel Cohn
Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
~ Rajneesh
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
~ Richard B. Garnett
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.
~ Samuel Johnson
We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.
~ Scott Derrickson
Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
~ Steven Moffat
Love has no place for idealization.
~ Sudhir Kakar
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
~ William Shakespeare
He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
~ Ann Brashares
When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.
~ Bill Maher
People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
I love The Matrix, especially the first one.
~ Cass Sunstein
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
~ Chuck Klosterman