Quotes About Illusion

They don't know they are playing on a grave yard.

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Looks aren't everything," Kate said. "After all," she quoted, "'the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape.

Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.

The ones who are already dead but don't realize it.

maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!

illusions are tricks on the brain!

Even when he stands still, he moves. Baxter flickers everywhere and nowhere. A blink in a shuddering train window.

The new dispensation—near-perfect retrievability—reorients us, not so subtly altering our expectations and our way of encountering our reality. It feeds the great illusion of our competence, our mastery, even as it pampers us and gives us a sense of being catered to (the psychological implication being that we're worthy). These new assumptions

There is now a transparancy to things in this new life—as though one's body and all the objects were but holographic images with no substantial reality.

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil to lift off the bondage and illusion

He is trying to justify himself, but he cannot fool Krishna.

If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.

All weakness, all bondage is imagination.

Let us not be caught this time. So many times Maya has caught us, so many times have we exchanged our freedom for sugar dolls which melted when the water touched them. Don't be deceived. Maya is a great cheat. Get out. Do not let her catch you this time. Do not sell your priceless heritage for such delusions. Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.

I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.