Quotes About Illusion

Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

The mantra is to be positive, to be happy. This mania for optimism—for happiness—leads to fantasy being mistaken for reality. Reality is dismissed when it is unpleasant.

Alzò per un momento lo sguardo verso di noi, poi si produsse in quel gioco di prestigio che sin dalla notte dei tempi ha fatto sì che il genere umano prendesse in simpatia la capra, emettendo contemporaneamente un rutto e una scoreggia.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

no lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it.

family of friends, people she knows only by their voices. She especially likes Griswald, gruff old butler for wealthy Zack Givens.   Meeting Griswald is a shock; he is neither gruff nor old, but a powerful, handsome man. In fact, he is Zack Givens, cold, heartless — and charmed by the artless young woman who brings him chicken soup, treats him like a friend … and falls in love with the humble man she imagines him to be. Inevitably, she will face his betrayal. Then

She should be inured to disappointment. She never should have had hope. No. No hope. Of all the illusions a governess couldn't afford, hope was the shiniest and most tempting, and the one dream she could never, ever afford. Apparently Charlotte's heart had forgotten that truth.

They're spreading out. Look unaware and sweet and innocent. It's a little hard to look innocent when I'm as big as a house.

Control is an illusion, Steele. I learned that a long time ago. It doesn't matter who appears to have it. We really only can control ourselves. We have choices. You were my choice.

He thought he was playing her. Seducing her. That was the play, but it felt all too real, and he'd never had real.

You have the white knight syndrome in spades," she murmured. "Don't kid yourself, baby, there's nothing white knight about me.

Humanity is not condemned to wander forever in an epistemological fog, knowing only the surface appearance of things but never their true nature.

consistently and comprehensively they have been deceived.