Quotes About Illusion

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Being called 'love' or 'my love' by someone doesn't necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.