Quotes About Illusion

why is it all so beautiful this fake dream this craziness why?

this boat is and is not when it sinks both disappear

Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be glorious birds.

I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.

A goal which is infinitely remote is not a goal at all, it is a deception.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

Some are perfectly satisfied with what they have; they eat, drink, impregnate their wives, and take life as it comes. Others can never forget that they are being cheated; that life tempts them to struggle by offering them the essence of sex, of beauty, of success; and that she always seems to pay in counterfeit money.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.

Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach.

All that you say you are, you aren't.

Clouded are we to the truth for truth itself is not real.

Could this be a dream or the ultimate nightmare?

Nothing is as it seems for we humans often look at something as we wish to see it, not as it actually is.

Nothing, but a dream have I and so very precious it is to me.

Reality always manages to make things much worse than that of which imagination can conjure.

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.

The passing of Time is the greatest misconception of reparation.

There is a big difference between what one knows, what one believes and the true reality.

Whatever you think someone feels is most likely the exact opposite.

She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.