Quotes About Illusion

When you find out that everything about your reality is just an illusion, it's hard not to completely shut down.

People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.

That's the trick about denial, isn't it? Once you start lying to yourself, there's no one else to stop you from believing your own bullshit.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect.

things like, "He ain't much to see, but he looks real good through the bottom of a glass.

Time is fixed and time is flexible. It is an invention by man and the curse of man. We all need more time.

Behind every reflection is a shadow. But behind any shadow, there is no reflection.

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

When the cover was lifted to reveal nothing but a heaped plate of pineapple chunks, however, there were people in the audience who could take no more.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

The fiction will seek the real.

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

Rien d'ailleurs ne rassure autant qu'un masque.

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said. "It wasn't a dream," she told him.

Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...

the coolness of the wall mirror. He