Quotes About Illusion

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

Santa Claus is just a story, says Seth. He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Claus.

everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality .

The moment the colorful papier-mâché burst, instead of Tootsie Rolls or Hershey's Kisses, everyone present was showered with Vicodins, Darvons, Percodans, amyl nitrate ampoules, LSD stamps, and assorted barbiturates. The now-wealthy, now-middle-aged parents were ecstatic, while my little friends and I couldn't help but feel a tad bit cheated.

With all the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.

Los libros de cirugía plástica, los panfletos y los folletos prometían ayudarme a llevar una vida normal, una vida feliz; pero esto se parecía cada vez más a lo que me han enseñado a querer. A lo que quiere todo el mundo.

Everything you remember is wrong.

Rant Casey on DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic: . . . What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. The agent's yelling that no matter how great you look, your body is just something you wear to accept your Academy Award. Your hand is just so you can hold your Nobel Prize. Your lips are only there for you to air-kiss a talk show host.

Gdy siedzÄ™ w korku, serce bije mi z normalnÄ… szybkoÅ›ciÄ…. Nie jestem sam. UtknÄ…wszy tam, mogÄ™ uchodzi? za normalnego czÅ'owieka, który wraca do ?ony i dzieci, który ma dom. MogÄ™ udawa?, ?e moje ?ycie jest czymÅ› wiÄ™cej ni? tylko czekaniem na kolejnÄ… katastrofÄ™. Å»e wiem, jak funkcjonowa?. Tak samo, jak dzieci bawiÄ… siÄ™ w dom.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact

Okay, the way I figure it, you're just the subject of an experiment and the whole world you know is just an artificial construct populated by actors who play the roles of everybody in your life, and the weather is just special effects and the sky is painted blue and the landscape everywhere is just a set. Is that it?

On a night without the moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact, Tyler said. So don't fuck with us.

Habéis pensado alguna vez que la vida es una metáfora de la televisión?

Porque nada es tan perfecto como uno lo imagina.

Up those stairs, to anybody after the fiftieth dude, Cassie Wright will look like a missile crater greased with Vaseline. Flesh and blood, but like something's exploded inside her.

?yjemy i umieramy, a ca?a reszta to tylko z?udzenie. Ca?e to gadanie o uczuciach i wra?liwo?ci to jedno wielkie kurze ?ajno. Zmy?lone, subiektywne, emocjonalne brednie. Nie ma duszy. Nie ma Boga. S? tylko decyzje, choroby i ?mier?.

S ?ímkoliv, co si poÃ…â"¢ídíÅ¡, vykládá, získáÅ¡ jenom jednu vÄ›c navíc, kterou pak ztratíÅ¡.

You're going up and up and up and not getting anywhere. It's the illusion of progress. What you want to think is your salvation. What people forget is a

It's that kind of faux wisdom. That kind of Chinese food enlightenment where you know that ten minutes after your head clears, you'll forget it all.

L'irreale è più potente del reale. Perché la realtà non arriva mai al grado di perfezione cui può spingersi l'immaginazione.