Quotes About Illusion

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

Glory is like a circle in the water

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

If life is a dream, better you dread the waking!

Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.