Quotes About Illusion

Disneyland is the only people trap operated by a mouse.

By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

All poetry is simply an escape from reality. It says what is palpably not true. The only difference between poets is a difference in the kind of escape they crave. Some are content with visions of a pretty girl who is also a good cook and pays for the marketing out of her own funds; others demand the insane consolations of metaphysics, or the hiding-place of a jargon no one can understand.

But somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

REALITY, n. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

Love sees roses without thorns.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

As I was sitting in my chair I knew the bottom wasn't there. Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!

People are not always what they seem.

Daja: Die Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Tempelherr: Doch selten Etwas Besser.

and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?