Quotes About Illusion

Perhaps the conspiracy existed only because I had invented it. Perhaps I should forget about it now.

It is astounding how, when in the womblike embrace of warm water, we can fool ourselves that we can still be children.

When we'd first moved home, I had missed the ground bustle, but had since fallen in love with the feeling of the open air around us, the play of winds among the thinner branches, the illusion that one could be all alone.

My easy conviction that everything that had happened had only been the product of my imagination was shattered now.

He is shown as a submissive consort, but that was hardly the case. He is as invisible and quick as the wind.

Leonid saw what he wanted to see, a world shining with the light of Madragore.

You are a fool! He is not Daniel, and you will never be me!

The woman's voice seemed to be all around her, and did not originate from any particular area.

She visualised an image of dark, shady hallways, where fans turned slowly on the ceiling, parting the thick smoke of hashish; dark eyes behind a lattice, the low chuckle of feminine laughter, the swish of light cotton against polished floors. Such a strange summoning.

Memories were perhaps sweeter than reality.

Sometimes being alive feels like a dream.

Did he imagine the rustle of garments, the brief touch of fingers on his brow? He opened his eyes, expection violation, but there was no one there.

As the stage lamps were turned up, these shapes were revealed to be pieces of scenery, mere suggestions of forms. To me, it became rocky land, devoid of moisture.

Mikha'il and his kind, could only be statues, icons in this world. We could not admit they were actually real.

Looking back, Daniel could see he was seduced from the start.

These people look like actors and their domains are stage sets.

The serpent shook itself and its image wavered. Tentacles rose from it, which presently Tayven realized were arms. The serpent had acquired a semi-human appearance. To the waist, it had the form of a beautiful boy which melded into the flexing coils. The creature's limbs wove upon the air in a cruel dance. It smiled, showing sharp teeth, and a narrow forked tongue flickered out.

Death is a trickster whose sleeves we thought we had shaken free of fatal cards, and yet now he comes to trespass on our courts.

I was still chasing shadows, but I thought I understood what cast them.

Jay felt she could sense the overlapping layers of reality all around, just beyond her perception. But how could she see them? She felt it might be similar to the way the eyes could focus on a computer generated image, and perceive a shape in the chaotic pattern. If she concentrated hard enough, she was sure an image would suddenly loom before her, clear and definite.

It is possible to create physical matter, or at least a convincing illusion of such, by the power of thought alone.

sayin so don't make it so

Having everything in life is having nothing! But being alive is having the dream of everything and the prospect of nothing. .

The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time.