Quotes About Illusion

Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

In order to erase his personal history the warrior must create around himself a fog in which nothing about him seems tangible. Only tangible people have personal history.

Death is an illusion, life is a dream and we are the creator of our own imagination. The present moment is the only moment available to us and is the doorway to all moments.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

No hay agua en tu mente cuando contemplas un lago. Dicho de otra forma, la percepción de un objeto duro no posee en sí misma, dureza. La conciencia de la confusión no se encuentra confundida. La conciencia de la locura no está loca. La conciencia del paso del tiempo no demora tiempo alguno: no hay tiempo en ella.

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

it was a great big lie.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being true.

Our perspective of life has passed into an ideology which conceals the fact that there is life no longer.

It is nothing new to find that the sublime becomes the cover for something low. That is how potential victims are kept in line.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.