Quotes About Illusion

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Nothing is more demoralizing than to be wronged and then to be told that one's injury is an illusion. To be betrayed by the central pillars of society—government, employer, university—leaves a lasting bitterness and alienation. Furthermore, unlike nonwhites, who have well-funded organizations that spring to the defense of alleged victims, the disappearance of white solidarity means that a white man is entirely on his own.870*

Suomi Suomi eikö meillä pelata shakkia ja jos pelataan niin millaisia saatanan nappuloita me ollaan? Ei kunua ei kuningatarta ja soltut talonpojat pelkkiä houruja, tornit hävinneet metsien myötä ja ratsut kaikki menossa makkaraksi, Suomi Suomi eikö sinulla ole kuin lähettejä, salkkuun rakastuneita kuriireja jotka luulee että maailma on liukuportaat ja himoitsee nukkua pressanlinnassa...

get very drunk. This is what refreshes him, participating in the illusion of another life, which is the same thing that we're always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities, however unlikely or unreal they are. Iceland remains ideal for this purpose. "It's what fantasies are made of," Hansson says. "This untamed wild, this alien landscape, this vastness.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

After all, color in itself has no color — it's simply a construction of the mind: a sensation, like the Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and the smell of honeysuckle.

The best lies to tell, said Jane, are the ones people want to believe.

the perception of a threat was eight times as good as a real one

That's insane.' 'If you look around, you won't find much that isn't.

It's confusing to suddenly have to reappraise all you know, to rejigger one's outlook in the light of new knowledge, and realize that everything you thought was truth and justice was little more than an elaborate fiction.

Most people thought you just waved your hands and sim-sallah-bim, but it was a lot more complex than that. Sorcery was not so much doing what you wanted to do but doing what you could do—or ingeniously finding a way around the physical limitations of the craft.

Equality is a proven myth.

que en algún momento me despertaré y estaré en la lona del ring, asesinado por un oriental muy gordo que sonríe igual que la muerte.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

He llegado a la conclusión de que la realidad mata y la ficción salva.

Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?