Quotes About Illusion

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

You think you know this story. You do not.

No one sees her of course. She doesn't exist unless you count bad dreams. Yet still she flies

It has been my experience that the only normal people are those you don't know very well.

If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?

So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering." The

Hollywood these days." "We've

Morelli got Briggs a glass. "Don't let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I'm even less civilized than she is.

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

How could anyone confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair grey and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.

All that was a dream, you couldn't hold on, you couldn't depend on frosted glass and Debussy.

The secret is -- a magician doesn't buy magic. Admire the skill of a magician, but never fall under his spell. She rose and collected our glasses. And I thought of how Barry seduced my mother, his smoked mirrors and hidden trained doves. She never chose him, not really, but she gave him everything. She would always be his, even if he was dead. He had shaped her destiny.

He just didn't want to see how damaged she was. As long as she didn't show him, that was all he asked for. A good show.

The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again.

People want a little magic. Sex is its theater. There are sliding panels and trapdoors.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt.

It was as if I was blind and she'd told me, sight doesn't matter, it's just as well you can't see.

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.