Quotes About Illusion

In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

There is no happiness in life, there is only a mirage on the horizon, so cherish that.

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me ("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

A king is but a foolish labourer Who wastes his blood to be another's dream. -from "Fergus and the Druid

Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.

Fellow-wanderer, Could we but mix ourselves into a dream, Not in its image on the mirror!

I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilizations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay.

It was at the moment of the fall of day when every man may pass as handsome and every woman as comely.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.