Quotes About Illusion

All that we see or seem, is but a Dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe

Sempre que sonhava, morria no sonho.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.

You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

World is all backward… It's like…we're through the looking glass. Good is bad, bad is good. Black is white, white is black. People base their lives on convenient recollections and are considered sane. People who look too hard for truth are considered crazy.

The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on its owner the comforting delusion that he or she does not have any. In a sense, dissonance theory is a theory of blind spots—of how and why people unintentionally blind themselves so that they fail to notice vital events and information that might make them question their behavior or their convictions.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Blue skies can be misleading.

Tragedy whores don't feel the foundation break apart beneath their feet—the reeling blast of emptiness, though to watch them you might think so. They're voyeurs. They feed like coffin flies on drama, embroiled in virtual grief and the illusion of heartbreak. They all have stories they want to tell, insist on telling, proclaiming their link to tragedy. Emotional rubberneckers. I

Nothing is ever as it seems. We hide our reality from the outside world and from each other. We float along on process, Anthony and I—What will we have for dinner, did you call your mother, what time do you think you'll be home? Phone calls and kisses and thank-you notes. You can lose a whole life on that.

The world is caught up by appearances, dazzled by their infinite variety, snared by illusion, endlessly distracted, and does not recognize me, the eternal principle that connects the humblest flower with the grandeur of the constellations.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

You're so clean that you're dirty.

She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

From every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart. You learned you didn't have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince.

The most romantic time of my life was a hoax

Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly. Only a monster would lock a bird in here and call himself an animal lover.

attaching all your hopes and fantasies to something—or someone—outside yourself almost always has disastrous results.