Quotes About Illusion

Monsters looked just like the rest of us. And somehow, that made them even scarier.

I heard people say that when you lose someone you love, they keep thinking they see him. Like when a stranger walks by, they'll do a double take to make sure it's not him. They'll hear his voice in a cafe only to realize that what they heard was the sound of some baritone DJ on the radio.

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression.

I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad Wizard.

I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.

The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.' A parallel is that 'the apparency of a result can be mistaken for the result.

People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore

Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.

Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot? Jenny: What? Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing. Jenny: Is that what you are? Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything else....'" Jenny

Julian could spin a web of shadows around you, with touches like the brush of moth's wings and kisses soft as twilight. He could turn your own senses against you until the kisses left you dizzy and breathless and the moth's-wing touches put you on slow burn. And by the time you realized what was underneath the softness, you were shivering and melting and lost.

When one has made up one's mind that things are going well, and that one has helped to make them go well, it takes some time to realize that in fact the opposite is true, and that things are not going well.

Halk, her zaman yalanlar? kendisi yaratm??; sonra da bunlara inanm??t?r.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.