Quotes About Illusion

People always think something's all true.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

Time is making fools of us again.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Every appearance or sound is like an illusion, mirage, or reflection; It is substance without the mark of reality. The mind that perceives such illusion is like space.

All appearances and sound vibrations are like an illusion, a mirage, or a reflection; They are substances without the marks of reality. The mind that cognizes illusion is also like space; Without center or boundary, it is beyond intellectual conception.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant.

Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Facts are the enemy of truth.

God help us—we are both men of La Mancha.

The Duke: This La Mancha—what is it like? The Governor: An empty place. Great wide plains. Prisoner: A desert. The Governor: A wasteland. The Duke: Which apparently grows lunatics. Cervantes: I would say, rather...men of illusion. The Duke: Much the same. Why are you poets so fascinated with madmen? Cervantes: I suppose...we have much in common. The Duke: You both turn your backs on life. Cervantes: We both select from life what pleases us.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

He could want it to be a dream forever and that wouldn't change things.

The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick if you wanna meet someone at a specific place in the universe to have tea or coffee. But that's all it is, a trick. There's no such thing as the past, it exists only in the memory. There's no such thing as the future, it exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

Perhaps we are cursed,' Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.