Quotes About Illusion

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

Make believe I'm right.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

Life is magic.

Colourful lips are pretty, child but they also speak colourful lies.

It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing.

Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall

And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.