Quotes About Illusion

All the baubles offered by the material world fail to satisfy because they are themselves products of finitude and impermanent by nature.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

Le monde est un grand bal où chacun est masqué.

A arte de agradar é a arte de enganar.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That's when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

She was not alone. There was Mr. Rochester with a candle, followed by a very mousy little governess by the name of Jane Eyre—ah, no, those were just the remnants of her dream;

Recycling must go down in history as one of the greatest and most successful confidence tricks.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

Love is a word from the old poems you read. In real life there is no love. Men come together like apes and birds. It is sweet sometimes to play with a woman, but the wind blows and there is an end of it.

One imagines everything higher than it is, till one sees it. You come on your travels from your little provincial town with false ideas about life. Grand Hotel, you think. Most expensive hotel, you think. God knows what marvels you expect from a hotel like this. You'll soon know all about it. The whole hotel is only a rotten pub. It is exactly the same with the whole of life. The whole of life is a rotten pub, Herr Kringelein. You arrive, stay for a while and go on again.

I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.'

Napoleon… mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?