Quotes About Illusion

Eva Wilt got to her feet and stood with the rain running down her face and as she stood there the illusions that had sustained her through the week disappeared. She saw herself as a fat, silly woman who had left her husband in pursuit of a glamour that was false and shoddy and founded on brittle talk and money.

A ghost in this place. That's what I am. Or I'm real and Manhattan is a dream.

You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Beauty may reside in the eye of the beholder, but what we see is determined by what we expect to see.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

I don't know what 'the big time' is really, except that it's probably some terrible place you can't get out of, you know… or you fall from it and break all your bones, or you try to go further and burn up.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

Fools are easily fooled.

Just because you believe something is true doesn't automatically make it true.

Most people choose appearance over reality.

The average person believes that they are better than the average person.

Translogic: A comment or statement that sounds logical and makes sense at the time it is said but when later closely examined it actually makes no sense at all.

Ugly people look prettier in the dark.

Stultorum cavea mundus est.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.