Quotes About Illusion

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

Unsubstantial Death is amorous.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death

It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

Life is like a dream, when you wake up, you only have memories.

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand—they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.