Quotes About Illusion

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars

What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie.

Even as a cow she was lovely.

Darkness makes any woman fair.

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape of things

Phantasos: he takes illusory shapes of all inanimate things, earth, stones, rivers, trees.

Crédule enfant, à quoi bon ces vains efforts pour saisir une fugitive apparence? L'objet de ton désir n'existe pas! ... Cette ombre que tu vois, c'est le reflet de ton image.

Human beings like to see themselves reflected in clouded mirrors.

And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically.

Yeah, I know you. I made you up. This is my dream. You're a mixture of Zac Efron and Johnny Depp.

Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc

It can be seductive and cunning. Darkness wears many faces, and some of those faces can seem, at first, like allies.

could have almost convinced myself that everything was normal. But almost can be a really big word.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.

Fascination exists only in the imagination of the fascinated.

He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

distance lends enchantment to the view

Like one kissed by a goddess in a dream, he walked on air; and, while one is walking on air, it is easy to overlook the boulders in the path.