Quotes About Illusion

Things don't always look as they seem.

Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Nothing is Real; it's a Cosmic Drama. We are just Actors; we Come and we Go. There will be Laughter; there will be Tears. Such is the Cosmic Show.

I never thought it could be so hard to lose something I never really had!

Dreaming about love is too fascinating, but to wake up and face the reality is painful.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

No one stays true. Its like an addiction cuz aint no one real...its all fiction.

Awesome does not look the same close-up as it does from far away.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...

You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be.

Its weird enough having a dream about your best friend being in love with you, but worse waking up and believing its true.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously.

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

When you have a crush on someone, your brain overlooks and ignores the flaws of that person causing them to appear perfect.

Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.