Quotes About Illusion

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Every shut-eye ain't sleep and every good-bye ain't gone.

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer.

The stars, like many other things, are only romantic from a distance.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The theory that, since the sky rockets following a wallop in the eye are optical delusions, the wallop itself is a delusion and the eye another.

Life is but shadow. Only you, my Beloved, are more real than shadow.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —SAUL BELLOW

Beyond the physical illusion is spiritual perfection

Enlightenment is seeing things as they are rather than as we imagine

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion

Things are often not as they seem, but always as they should be.

Thoughts about reality are not reality

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth

True understanding is understanding the illusion

One is always free and one is always alone. The mind is only dreaming.

Let me tell you what really happened, the voice said. All those years you waited torpidly, like a sleepwalker, pulled and pushed about by others' opinions, by external pressure, by your illusions, by the official rules you internalized. You were misled by your own frustration and passivity, believing that what you were not allowed to have was what your heart was destined to embrace.

Breaking away from the illusion of market objectivity is the first step towards understanding capitalism.