Quotes About Illusion

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

There's no point in believing in things that exist.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Granny Weatherwax looked out at the multi-layered, silvery world. "Where am I?" INSIDE THE MIRROR. "Am I dead?" THE ANSWER TO THAT, said Death, IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NO AND YES. Esme turned, and a billion figures turned with her. "When can I get out?" WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT'S REAL. "Is this a trick question?" NO. Granny looked down at herself. "This one," she said.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn't belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word.

It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.