Quotes About Illusion

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.

Time is an illusion that only makes us pant.

I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.

Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

We came to the zebras. Mr. Kumar had never heard of such creatures, let alone seen one. He was dumbfounded. "They're called zebras," I said. "Have they been painted with a brush?" "No, no. They look like that naturally." "What happens when it rains?" "Nothing." "The stripes don't melt?" "No.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

We long for the suspension of self-consciousness, of the pseudo-analytic attitude that has become second nature; but neither art nor religion, historically the great emancipators from the prison of the self, retain the power to discourage disbelief. In a society based so largely on illusions and appearances, the ultimate illusions, art and religion, have no future.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? - Edward II, 5.1

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13. But he used to call it the 7.73. He said it made him feel more virtuous.

Giorno per giorno vedo la gente affollarsi nei teatri e nei cinematografi, e so che per la metà delle volte, e anche più, vanno a una ricerca cieca, e credono di essere soddisfatti mentre in realtà vengono pasciuti di miseri gusci vuoti. E la parte più triste di tutto questo è che se ci si immagina di essere soddisfatti dei gusci, non rimarrà più appetito per il buon grano.

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

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

it creates a three-dimensional image of light, a hologram,

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.