Quotes About Illusion

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

From now on, consider yourself a con artist.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

The Newtonian scheme became an illusion of determinism in a tempestuous world of human actions. Economists became preoccupied with mechanical models of markets and uninterested in the willful people who inhabit them.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

The switch from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality is full of surprises.

Life is both much simpler and more complicated than it appears to be.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.

One reason that religious prohibitions will probably never disappear is that we would deeply miss the glory we bestow upon ourselves for daring to violate the rules of an illustrious illusion we have imagined was an explanation of our existence.

A good marriage is a slow transition from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality.

The eye is bigger than the belly.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

When a nation can't admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?

The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Cover me with kisses and lies

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic? WE can't.