Quotes About Illusion

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself.

He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself. He thought he saw what he thought we saw.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.

Behind us the walls of the house were dark; the lighted windows shone as if they were floating and might twist or slant or change places.

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

In classical physics, science started from the belief – or should one say, from the illusion? – that we could describe the world, or least parts of the world, without any reference to ourselves.

Only if this were a film would I consider it real.

Mr. Moustafa) I think his world ended long before he even entered it. Although I must say, he certainly maintained the illusion with a marvelous grace.

Leave me my delusion, dearest! I must have that to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else!

Nada hay en este mundo, Betteredge, que se aparezca como una cosa probable, si no logramos vincularla con nuestra engañosa experiencia, y sólo creemos en lo novelesco cuando se halla estampado en letras de molde.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

citizens could forget, while they went through all the forms of the dead Republic, that they were living under a military monarchy in which force was hidden so long as phrases could rule.

You know, at home in Newington, Mac works all day to keep the house spotlessly clean. The gardeners work outside to bring the entire garden to near perfection. But it's all an illusion. It's artificial. All life is disorganized.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

Anybody who expects privacy in the internet is delusional . - Ben Kincaid

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

Budalal?k, üçkâ??tç?l???n k?l?f?d?r. Utanç, Gururun k?l?f?d?r.