Quotes About Illusion

You daren't think, so you live in a dream.

So art becomes not communication but mystification.

It's all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it's all too hard.

I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.

When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.

I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must , somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.

If Buddhists think evil is unreal they must be mad! Thinking evil is unreal is holding hands with evil under the table!

Perhaps 'love' had always been for me an ignis fatuus.

Ignorance I know – 'innocence' I imagine is just a word.

When I am told that a person is happy,' said Nick, 'I know that he is not. Of really happy people this is never said.

The dread enactment of the dream had turned into a waking horror.

There are false suns, easier to gaze upon and far more comforting than the true one.

Franca breathed the tranquility of the house, yet it was not tranquil, she breathed its goodness, but it was not good.

The apparent scene is slowly falling to pieces revealing the reality behind.

Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Was it here, after all, that everything broke down and descended into a roaring shaft of shattered masks and crumpled rose petals and bloody feathers?

She said she sometimes worked as an usherette in the cinema, and she had seemed to him like a nymph of the cinema age, a sybil of the cavern of illusory love.

We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.

Art is a vain and hollow show, a toy of gross illusions, unless it points beyond itself and moves ever whither it points.

But now he was dreaming, he was wildly imagining things.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world. We all live in dream worlds, said Monty.

You are always wanting other people to act in some drama which you have invented.

His peace depends on seeing me as unattainable, as an angel. It will hurt terribly when it turns out that I am only a woman after all.