Quotes About Illusion

The media are not reality; reality is reality.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Falsity feels great until you meet the truth.

Falsity is the most powerful thing on earth. Truth is the most valuable thing in the world.

The nature of things has never been a problem, our perceived nature of them and perception of their nature has always been.

est-ce une illusion que d'être heureux?

None are more enslaved than those who think they are free.

And I run after this phantom of the mind till it leads me to an abyss I shudder back from.

Es preciso obrar con los niños como obra con nosotros el Señor, que nunca nos hace más felices que cuando nos deja embriagarnos con una ilusión agradable.

Sono fantasmi se sono la felicità?

Erinnerungen sind aus wundersamen Stoff gemacht – trügerisch und dennoch zwingend, mächtig und schattenhaft. Es ist kein Verlaß auf die Erinnerung, und dennoch gibt es keine Wirklichkeit außer der, die wir im Gedächtnis tragen.

All you truly "own" is your SELF. Everything else is borrowed in the illusion of time and space. Treasure yourself.

Nothing is as it seems, YOU are the ONE creating dreams love and fear darkness and light YOU are the ONE with all the creative might.

You are an infinite SOUL enjoying the wonderful illusion of a solid BODY in a beautiful physical World.

Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.

When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.

the shadow on the tree bark moves and emerges in the shape of a gecko

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.

Did you think Beauty was so easy and merry a companion? Perhaps you were confusing Beauty with Having a Good Time.

Beer lays a comforting veil of mirth between reality and me.

Titles of Books. — Decoys to catch purchasers.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate...

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in the theater.