Quotes About Illusion

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you ; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"—Charles Baudelaire "The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy"—Ken Ammi

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

People can die of mere imagination.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

Even though Richmond is a three-quarter mile, it's a fast short track... So it gives you - maybe you could call it a false of security a little bit, but it seems to be working for me.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where Westerners exist without thought. Considering their inaptitude and inaction, Western peoples might as well not exist.

Con ng??i s? dÄ© l?n h?p trong kh? Ä'au là vì nh?n th?c sai l?m c?a mình: vô th??ng thì cho là th??ng, vô ngã thì cho là ngã, không sinh di?t thì cho là có sinh di?t, cùng chung má»™t tá»± tính mà l?i cho là riêng l? tách bi?t.

When something is pleasant, lovely, and appealing, we're caught by it. But appealing appearances are deceptive. We get hooked by them and once we're caught, we suffer.