Quotes About Illusion

The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

There comes a time when you realize everything is a dream. And only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

We live untruth amid evidence of untruth.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

A good story transports the reader to a new place via experience. Not through arguments or facts, but through the illusion that life is taking place on the page. Not

You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.

I can do a score of things that can't be done. I can find a thing I can't see, and I see a thing I can't find. The first is time, and the second is a spot before my eyes. I can feel a thing I cannot touch, and I touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, and the second is your heart. What would you do without me? Say "nothing".

the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.

It didn't work, said the King. The cloak of invisibility didn't work. Yes, it did, said the Royal Wizard. No, it didn't, said the King. I kept bumping into things, the same as ever. The cloak is supposed to make you invisible, said the Royal Wizard. It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things. All I know is, I kept bumping into things, said the King.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

This heavish sweety fragrance,' Thag muttered to himself, 'that rises, or that roses, isn't fit for human noses, and it tricks the minds of men. Three times two is eight,' he said, 'and one is ten.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)

See is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~ African Proverb

Buddhism, we say that life is like housekeeping in a dream. We may get a lot done, but in the end we wake up and what does it come to, all that effort?

Our eyes can discover the peace and quiet, but that's no guarantee of reality.

We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Facts are such horrid things!