Quotes About Illusion

She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.

You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the wirld. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

In one of my favorites of your drawings, two Popsicles are talking to each other. One accuses, "You're more interested in fantasy than reality." The other responds, "I'm interested in the reality of my fantasy." Both of the Popsicles are melting off their sticks.

We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object"—this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love.

It often happens that we treat pain as if it were the only real thing, or at least the most real thing: when it comes round, everything before it, around it, and, perhaps, in front of it, tends to seem fleeting, delusional.

A glover will only ever want the skin, the surface, the outer layer. Everything else is useless, an inconvenience, an unnecessary mess. She thinks of the private cruelty behind something as beautiful and perfect as a glove.

The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

because words can encompass so much of the illusion of synonyms, and because metaphor is often subject to transformation: from "my homeland is not a suitcase" to "my homeland is a suitcase.

I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

Reality is just a nice way of saying "tragedy." The truth is, people are vain and mean!

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

El tapiz rojo que ocultaba a Telassim días atrás había sido cambiado por otro azul que presentaba en el centro un gran heptágono estrellado.

Dreams extended a real world danger into an imaginary one.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.

You track with the heart, not the eyes. The eyes are easily deceived; easiest thing in the world to show something that isn't true and make people believe it.

Anyone who worships his own creation, something of his own making, is someone in a state of confusion. Power

He could cloak a mind and fool another into thinking him invisible. A parlor trick, but one he disdained to use as she glided through the chamber sprinkled with stars against void. The stars were like Eva. They shimmered with a luminous brilliance, but couldn't see their own magnificence.

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it's only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

Restructuring is a favorite tactic of antisocials who have reached a senior position in an organization. The chaos that results is an ideal smokescreen for dysfunctional leadership. Failure at the top goes unnoticed, while the process of restructuring creates the illusion of a strong, creative hand on the helm.

Wenn schon die Illusion im Leben der Menschen eine so große Macht hat, daß sie das Leben in Gang hält, wie groß ist dann erst die Macht, die eine absolut begründete Hoffnung für das Leben hat, und wie unbesiegbar ist so ein Leben.

existence a temporary delusion—hadn