Quotes About Illusion

our landlord and landlady. Their house, just outside the town, was quite a little chateau, and the evil that dwelt within its highly polished salons, that reclined on its lace-covered beds, and was coiled deep in the stuffing of its exquisitely upholstered chairs and sofas, was enough to make the blood turn icy in the veins.

if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to keep them near or to keep them safe. Even if they could stand the prison, that kind of control is still an illusion. To fate, the walls are made of air

I think control is an illusion we build to protect ourselves, and the larger we try to make that circle, the weaker it gets. We can't control our own destinies, much less someone else's. And even the illusion is so fragile, any change can destroy it

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said.

in--whoever owned this house before him, they must have been colorblind, or into hallucinogenic drugs, or both.

At first, there was nothing. At second, there was everything. And too late he realized that what he had put into his mouth was not candy at all, but a key.

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

When you wander in the dark too long, you start to see things that aren't really there.

teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

the best lies told were the ones we tell ourselves.

In nonmeditation we see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.

Fame—fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.

Money is the opposite of magic. Art is magic. The

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.

What they were reacting to was being in this enclosed space with us—this illusion, me, Mick and Brian. The music might be the trigger, but the bullet, nobody knows what that is.

Memory is fiction

You know the part in Cinderella when everyone goes to the ball and she sits at home, crying? It wasn't because her gown was ripped. It was because she knew she was an idiot for thinking she could grab a prince.

The unnerving possibility of one's own madness is preferable to the still more unnerving one of supernatural agency disrupting known, familiar realities.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.