Quotes About Illusion

A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

I don't want realism…. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!… I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Through the teachings, the introduction by the master, the practice, and the blessings, you can gradually deconstruct and dissolve the karmic conceptual body and be introduced to another type of body and identity called the illusory wisdom body (yeshé gyumé lü). This second body is characterized by wisdom—realization of the truth—and by a positive sense of the illusory.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Cuántas Madame Bovary, como en el siglo XIX, hay ahora en Santiago de Chile de dos mil y tantos!

La memoria no existe y todo es incorrecto y falso, apenas merecedor del nombre de ensueño. Estaba,

He was watching me scientifically; there was no emotion in him at all. There was an assessing gleam in the hooded black eyes, a satiric set to his mouth, and I knew with fatal clarity that I had been duped. The rapturous tenderness was only a ploy to win my response

She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.

Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine?

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

The air of reality is too thick for me I choke on it I must live on shadows Even my poetry is vicarious.