Quotes About Illusion

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it that way." -The Host

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

People see what they want to see.

People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Disappointment is simply a dream that doesnt want to become a reality.