Quotes About Illusion

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

Settling for fool's gold instead of the real treasure?

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.