Quotes About Illusion

Sometimes people you want to believe in will disappoint you. The more you learn about the world, the fewer illusions you'll have.

I thought he was your friend." "Oh, he is. But have no illusions about Winterborne. He's not like any man you've ever known, nor is he someone your parents would have allowed you to meet in society.

Men are so easily drawn to fake things.

Hope is my enemy. It's worse than lies. It promises and it takes back. It teases and it rips my heart out.

The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some

She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist.

Delusion needs an architecture;

I fool you. I fool everyone.

I fool everybody!

It was always a dream house, and like a dream, it has no end.

Life sucks when you find out Superman's a jerk.

OBJECTS IN DREAMS MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

I think justice is blind so that she needn't see how massively ineffectual she is.

Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

You can dress a toad in lace, but the minute you let it go, it'll still poop on your porch.

Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from one that does.

When I was at Mrs. Murphy's and then the Seviers' house, I thought if I could just get back to the Arcadia, that'd fix everything. I thought it'd fix me, but now I see I was fooling myself, just to keep on going, one day to the next.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

I let out a breath. So basically we needed to find a place where what we saw wasn't really there, and then climb up a tongue into a giant's mouth. Excellent.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to consider our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

all gods were like that: the knife behind the smile, the drop of poison in the honey jar. They liked to bind you to them, make you dance on razorblades.

When human women are said to be traps that lead to the downfall of men, Buddhist philosophers and psychologists would insist that it is not women per se that endanger men but rather women as they appear to deluded men.

The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul's longing for Truth into another illusion.