Quotes About Illusion

We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don't know what we don't know.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Driving hasn't been the same since I installed fun-house rearview mirrors.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

The clothes have no emperor.

L'idée me vient finalement que toute consolation ne prenant pas en compte ma liberté est trompeuse, qu'elle n'est que l'image réfléchie de mon désespoir.

De tijden en de smaak zijn veranderd en de mensen ook. Men moet, ik herhaal het, nooit trachten een geliefde kennis uit lang verleden tijden terug te zien - nooit trachten iets te herleven van 't geen voorbij is. Le passé a ses mirages, maar laat u er niet door begoochelen.

none of it's real. Desire, power, money—none of it. They're just systems of control men came up with after they were done hunting and gathering.

Dream or reality? I still don't know which. But I was aware, in my heart, that illusion or not, I was no longer virgin in this body, and that Beth Metatronim was responsible for it.

Beth was a pleasurable fantasy, but I liked to think she looked upon me as an imaginary friend.

She was finding it increasingly difficult to dispel the illusion she was speaking to Khaster. Merlan was someone else; she must be careful.

I studied her beautiful features. No, this was a real person; she was not an image, not a ghost, not a fantasy.

You lost your god here in the flower of Babylon.

Perhaps my own soulscape was trying to give me a message, but the illusion made me uncomfortable, and I closed my eyes to banish it.

The dark surface of the mirror seemed to be the portal to a bottomless void. The suggestion of faint, distant stars spun in its depths.

They had come here seeking the past, and maybe they had found it. But not in the way they'd imagined.

All he saw of the house, as Taropat carried him through its dim-lit rooms, were picture fragments: a high-backed chair: a tilted painting of a frowning face: the gleam of a crystal ball on a cluttered table; a tattered cloth hung from the ceiling; cracked pain on the walls beside the stairs.

To those watching him, he appeared to dance as he walked.