Quotes About Illusion

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.

Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.

We are all just illusions of what we want the world to believe about us, no one even begins to assume what lurks below my surface, not even my best friends. ~Callum~

You're not in love. You only like the feeling of being in love.

Oh, You Want To Be My World, What Have You Done To Gain My Heart . It's a Fantasy, Only In Your Mind

When the rain stops falling, the pain comes fooling.

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me.

Get your filthy paws off my son, feet pue tan!" Cherise