Quotes About Illusion

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.

Sometimes you have to realize that the person you love isn't who you think they are, and they never will be.

In search of a perfect person, don't lose a true one. Because perfection is fantasy while truth is a reality.

Desperation for a relationship attracts a lot of mirages.

Relationships are like garage sales: At a distance it looks like it could be interesting...up close it's just a ton sh.. you don't need!

My knight in shining armor turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil.

The day that we would be together would be the best day of my existence. but I'm living each day as my worst, because I know, the day i've been dreaming is just an illusion I chose to believe in.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While

Some might say I was seeing things, but the true optical illusion was in seeing others and oneself as undivided and whole, as if being in focus was more real than being out of focus. We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise,

Stories are just things we fabricate, nothing more. We search for them in a world beside our own, then leave them here to be found, garments shed by ghosts.

The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles. After

What drives a fourteen-year-old to swear a blood oath to a blood brother? And more important, what makes a grown man believe in that oath? Should not the things that count, like ideology and political belief, the ripe fruit of our adulthood, matter more than the unripe ideals and illusions of youth? Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise, we often deceived over selves when we thought we saw ourselves most clearly.

It was a little past nine o'clock when I checked my watch at the entrance to his apartment building, a gray two-story factory for manufacturing hundreds of tired replicas of the American Dream. All the inmates imagined their dreams to be unique, but they were merely tin reproductions of a lost original.

there are times when one's life appears to be a stage. people come,people go. they come in order to go,& go with no intent of return. when they return,they return as one's past. a past that would make you feel that the present is false.

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

Till now, my conception of love has been based entirely on what I have seen in Hindi films, where the hero and the heroine make eye contact, and whoosh, some strange chemistry sets their hearts beating and their vocal chords tingling, and the next you see of them they are off singing songs in Swiss Villages and American shopping malls.

Vikram Chandra

Do not be afraid, there is nothing to fear. Do not grieve, because tragedy is an illusion. We are free, and we are happy, and together we are complete.

Does anyone ever lie to us more than we lie to ourselves?

God really doesn't reside in any temple, he is just an imposter who stays outside it for some time and meanwhile we fail to recognise and miss him.