Quotes About Illusion

But there is a truth here; seeing is magical. Looking kills. The longer I looked, the more the magic faded.

What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not

What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not in the Compassionate Society.

She tried to summon the sixteen-o'clock dream.

The universe was tight and mean and crammed into a wedge of brightness and music and skin a handful of decades long and no wider than your peripheral vision. People who believed otherwise were amateurs.

The present is an illusion.

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.

He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee ' you know, a hit show or whatever.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Voice in the night A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.