Quotes About Illusion

What looks like the cage's exit is actually the bars of the cage.

Il ne se faisait plus aucune illusion sur les Musulmans au Maroc, où, à la veille de l'indépendance, il les avait vus soudainement passer d'une attitude amicale à la sauvagerie la plus meurtrière. Il

The tree bark began to move, forming a face of wood.

People believe what they want to believe. The truth rarely makes a difference.

As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away! —HUGHES MEARNS The Psychoed

It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn't. Not really.

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

You've been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you're someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy.

Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind! Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind?

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.

As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever

The 20th century is a graveyard in which millions of corpses were sacrificed to the illusion of an earthly salvation.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keeps us where we are.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

And I find myself saying, "It wasn't really about her." And finding it's true. What do you mean?" Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

I'm not a very happy person, I told him.But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.