Quotes About Illusion

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To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real.

Nothing is true, nothing is real except love and our perception of love.

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

There are many hidden truths behind a lie

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.