Quotes About Illusion

Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night.

Reality is for those who lack imagination

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.

A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.

Happiness is just an illusion filled with sadness and confusion

You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

On the bad days, there is no color. I know there are colors. I can see the colors, but the world looks gray.

Ideology offers human beings the illusion of dignity and morals while making it easier to part with them.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

It's as if each of us is hallucinating all the time and what we call perception involves merely selecting the one hallucination that best matches the current input.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Las Vegas — my favorite desert mirage.

But how can you keep watch on a woman? A woman can fool herself, not to mention others.

Lo importante es lo que la gente quiere creer, y la gente tiene necesidad de creer, así como también de soñar.

Y sin embargo al padre Tomasino le debo uno de mis momentos más espléndidos, efímero momento en que creí en la bondad del hombre, que es un perverso animal.