Quotes About Illusion

I can wedge my head far enough down into the sand that I can't see whatever's staring at me, then it can't see me, either, and no matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing.

For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious." —ALBERT EINSTEIN

There's no such thing as normal," Barrons says. "You keep thinking that. You suffer hiraeth." "Here-eyeth?" I echo. "A Welsh word that means unattainable longing for a place—or perhaps more accurately a state of being—that never existed. Nostalgia for something that never was.

Lack of visible cloven hoof, tail, or horns does not disguise the devil at my door.

The place is a consummate mind-fuck.

YOU ACCUSE ME OF ILLUSION. YOU—WITH YOUR ABSURD CONSTRUCT OF LINEAR TIME. YOU FASHION FOR YOURSELF A PRISON OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, AND CALENDARS. YOU RATTLE BARS FORGED OF HOURS AND DAYS, BUT YOU'VE PADLOCKED THE DOOR WITH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. PUNY MINDS NEED PUNY CAVES.

how the representation of a thing could seem more alluring than the thing itself.

What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the miniature ruins of the castle - too huge, Nal thought, and vaguely humanoid in shape - and then it flew off, laboring heavily against the wind. In the soft moonlight this created the disturbing illusion that the bird had hitched itself to Nal's shadow and was pulling his darkness from him.

But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him.

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad.

Any human eye, goggled by a car's windshield, can graft such fantasies onto the great Mojave.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere.

From the outside everything looks fine," the dentist said, "but it's rotten to the core.

Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki (Wie de wolf vreest)

there is no such thing as a character in a script, only words on a page. An actor speaks these words of dialogue, and so the reader forms a sense of an actual person, though the character himself is an illusion.

Life is illusion, disillusionment is destruction.

Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's only smoke.)

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.