Quotes About Illusion

the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.

At that moment he could have said the earth was made of chocolate pudding and I would have believed it.

You see through the facade of the world, Citra Terranova. You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement.

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

Reality is overrated—but they'll remember thinking they knew the secrets of the universe

Credit is where credit is due and to honner the trixture whose illusions finally become true

Because it is easier to believe that scythes aren't real, and that I am a liar, and that the moon is made of cheese, than it is to admit that everything you believe about the world is wrong.

Compound eyes confound lies.

Estúpidos sueños. Incluso los buenos son malos, porque te recuerdan hasta qué punto es mala la realidad.

See, every hotel in Las Vegas has a gimmick, and the biggest gimmick of all is the Stratosphere Tower, which claims to have 113 floors, although I think they're measuring floors in Las-Vegas-inches, which stretch and contract to fit whatever lie you're trying to sell.

Everything feels right with the world, and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

but Cam has come to understand that a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

mas a ilusão de propósito é fundamental para uma população bem ajustada.

Most abusers don't leave a wide debris field that's easy to spot, and therefore easy to avoid. They're not nukes, they're radiation zones. They're not tornados, they're balmy summer skies where the morning sun makes you forget the thunderstorm coming in the afternoon.

Why am I seeing a beach ball?

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population.

Volume of curious facts and fictions of people who lived each day of their lives with the ravages of age and relentless approach of death. The brittle pages were filled with melodramatic and passionate short-sightedness that seemed laughable now. People who believed that their slightest actions mattered and that they could find a sense of completion before death inevitably took them, along with everyone they ever knew and loved.

Mira a Connor, que no parece preocuparse por dónde se sienta. No lo parece. Esa es la palabra clave con Connor. Se le da extremadamente bien ocultar lo que pasa en ese espacio desconcertante que va de una oreja suya a la otra.

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population. —The Thunderhead

Simply put, unsavories have a need to despise the system. To facilitate that, I had to create a system worthy of loathing. In reality, there is no actual need for people to take a number, or to wait for long periods of time. There isn't even a need for an intake agent. It's all designed to make unsavories feel as if the system is wasting their time. The illusion of inefficiency serves the specific purpose of creating annoyance around which unsavories can bond. - The Thunderhead

Sorry, Pinocchio, but Risa's not your Blue Fairy. She can't turn you into a real boy.

People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.