Quotes About Illusion

Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

your right I get it it all make sense now, your the perfect person so right so wrong lets all live in your imaginary life.

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

We have a saying that a snake is never as long as the stick to which we liken its length.

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

But when you're depressed, you think baloney is filet mignon. You score it, marinate it, and slap it on the grill. But when you finally bite into it, reality sets in (or is it heartburn?) and you realize it ain't steak---it's baloney.

normalcy bias. We suppose the world will continue to spin the way it always has. We tell ourselves that what we are seeing isn't, in fact, the cataclysm that it is.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.

People don't want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don't want to do the hard work of truly understanding how power works and organizing to bring it down.

Those who slip into this illusion ignore the signs of impending disaster. The physical degradation of the planet, the cruelty of global capitalism, the looming oil crisis, the collapse of financial markets, and the danger of overpopulation rarely impinge to prick the illusions that warp our consciousness,.

A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion.

Those who manipulate the shadows that dominate our lives are the agents, publicists, marketing departments, promoters, script writers, tel- evision and movie producers, advertisers, video technicians, photogra- phers, bodyguards, wardrobe consultants, fitness trainers, pollsters, public announcers, and television news personalities who create the vast stage for illusion. They are the puppet masters.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.

Fame is a mirage.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!