Quotes About Illusion

A naive belief in supernatural powers has been dispelled

Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream

A man's fate is a man's fate and life is but an illusion.

No tienes que llorar, O-chan. La vida sólo es un sueño dentro de un sueño —dijo el viejo

A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine it. For us ex-Changi-ites—we're lucky, we're cleansed, we know what life is really all about. What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

There's no fool like a fool who thinks he's charming. On

Memory is a mirage that fools the heart . . .

Fame and success are the myth of the ego

Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what

I think God is something that People use to avoid reality. I think faith allows People to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that this thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think People have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

For five albums, I would create an image of someone that wasn't true to who they were. I'd be in love with an idea. It's not an uncommon problem.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

A trick for looking taller is to wear a top and pants in the same color family - and to hide heels underneath the pants!

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.