Quotes About Illusion

When you see a giant, make sure it isn't a dwarf standing in a favourable light. Thus we approach 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper.

The house was full of relatives and poison, undercurrents camouflaged with cosmetic mirth.

Scott suddenly realized for the first time, that all second cup exteriors do not lead to the same second cup interior.

It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.

Memory is just an alternate version of reality.

Cada vez que un hombre me dice que es un romántico, me dan ganas de escupirle. Únicamente significa que tiene una idea romántica de ti, pero en cuanto te muestras tal y como eres y dejas de encajar en su fantasía, se desinfla. Los hombres románticos son un peligro. Cuanto más lejos, mejor.

If you believe in love, your setting yourself up to be disappointed.

That's no midget," the water skier said. "That's a real person.

Instantly it had become a sensation among tourists at the park, a fact that edified Kingsbury's belief that the illusion of quality is more valuable than quality itself.

Sometimes, I think I dreamed it, or I am saying it like a thing that I would do, when I would never, and calling it art.

Like asking at first Where am I after dream—and the room, in pieces, slow, comes back

It is said that humans are defined and distinguished from other animals by our ability to use tools and language, but often I wonder if the most uniquely human trait is our ability to deceive ourselves.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. HENRI POINCARÉ (1854–1912)

How can you tell when someone is only imagining?

The trapdoor beneath our feet swings open. We find ourselves in bottomless free fall. We are lost in a great darkness, and there's no one to send out a search party. Given so harsh a reality, of course we're tempted to shut our eyes and pretend that we're safe and snug at home, that the fall is only a bad dream.

The lure of the marvelous blunts our critical faculties.