Quotes About Illusion

Every time I think we're on to something meaningful, it dissolves into nothing.

Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic.

You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?

You're joking. No, it's true. There are billions of internal surfaces in that piece. It's like a piece of sky. Yes, it is.

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

I know where that distrust comes from. He grins. When I was little, my mom gave me a cookie. The raisins were made to look like chocolate chips. That's when my trust issues started.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing.

The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.

I've increasingly found that people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass. Our lies now are just more sophisticated; our words to deceive, more eloquent. From cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, to husband and wife, we've never stopped pretending.

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.

That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Memory plays tricks in the night, in the dark. We imagine things not how they are, but how we want them to be.

One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and as a result began to feel that there wasn't really a point to anything, that free will was an illusion, and that the things most people invested time and energy in were systems of control designed by those who sought to manipulate the general populace

The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.