Quotes About Illusion

And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.

There's this thing you're supposed to be part of in London. But what is it? That's the million-dollar question. Everyone's there because they're searching, aspiring. A very small percentage is actually living the dream. Ill, tired, unhappy, the rent is fucking loads, what is it you're getting? The idea of it, or something.

People will see whatever they want to see. Parallax.

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

Mirrors are for misery, nothing more...they record decay.

Feeling the motion of an earthquake even when there isn't one is called jishin yoi, which means "earthquake drunk.

You have to fool yourself before you can fool the audience.

Humans looked at the stars and they wished and they dreamed. He looked at the stars and knew they didn't matter. The stars were just chunks of glass in the black sky. No, the stars were meaningless.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform is always inferior to what we imagine.

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

And what if Pascal had not been saved and if those narrow hands in which we laid a cross are just he, entire, like a lifeless swallow in the dust, under the buzz of the poisonous-blue flies? And if they all, kneeling with poised palms, millions, billions of them, ended together with their illusion? I shall never agree. I will give them the crown. The human mind is splendid; lips powerful, and the summons so great it must open Paradise.

There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the voices of dead poets out into the sun.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

I'm not sure if he physically changes, or if he uses some kind of mind control to make you think he looks different, but the bottom line is you don't always see him coming. And make no mistake about it, the guy is evil.

The real is the imaginative failed.

I like you to be happy and carefree, but... but nobody ought to live in a fool's Paradise.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.