Quotes About Illusion

There are no shadows in which deceptions can be born, no dance of appearances:

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

Le bonheur est une illusion d'optique, deux miroirs qui se renvoient la même image à l'infini. N'essayez pas de remonter à l'image d'origine, il n'y en a pas.

Et ça jaillit comme dans un cauchemar, je dégueule des litres de vodka, des litres de champagne, mes illusions perdues, les fantômes qui me hantent, et ça gicle sur le bitume noir avec un bruit d'explosion liquide et sale qui se répercute dans ma tête comme la sentence fatale de mon indignité.

Tout ce temps, tous ces visages, tous ces cris de jouissance, ces étreintes sans âme au petit matin, quand la nuit n'est plus, le jour n'est pas encore, ton orgasme prend fin, et tes yeux se dessillent, ta chambre n'est qu'un bordel, Baudelaire est mort et, dans tes bras, il n'y a qu'une putain...

He began with the profound assumption that because the true, unadulterated consciousness of each human is ultimately godhead, then godhead already is our true, natural, and essential identity. We don't need to climb anywhere. Each of us already is number One on the Tree of Life. All lower (sleepier) levels of consciousness with which we may currently identify are illusionary—dream selves that we temporarily misidentify as our Self.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Strength is an empty shell.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

You take things coolly, sir,' said Juan. 'Why,' Replied the other, 'what can a man do? There still are many rainbows in your sky, But mine have vanish'd. All, when life is new, Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high; But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers

Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken

The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking

here's a thing I've learned: Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative. The golden family you think you know from the luxury home down the street—they're not who you believe they are. They have faults, secrets. Sometimes dark and terrible ones.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative. The golden family you think you know from the luxury home down the street—they're not who you believe they are. They have faults, secrets. Sometimes dark and terrible ones.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative.