Quotes About Illusion

One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all.Go ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

I love mirrors,' he had once heard Fulgrim say. 'They let one pass through the surface of things.

I know what you are thinking about', said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.

Whatever elaborate, and grotesquely counter-intuitive, underpinnings there might be to familiar reality, it stubbornly continues to be familiar. When Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, did the ground become any less solid? The truth itself changes nothing.

As for the stars, they were never ours to lose; the truth is, we've lost nothing but the illusion of their proximity.

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.

When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

Remember this rule: Like most reality shows, integers have no point whatsoever.)

Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it's a joke, but I've had so many news programs in this country say, 'So what's it like, having an ocelot?" And I'll say, "It's marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they're mewling, it just warms your heart.' People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It's not just me. Look around.

It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.