Quotes About Illusion

Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream wife, dream ob, dream colleagues, dream partners, dream friends. We can live in a dream present for a dream future...But if we take off the glasses, maybe, just maybe, we might see a little more accurately what is actually here.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

We can feel victimized by our thoughts, or blinded by them. We can easily mis-take them for the truth or for reality when in actuality they are just waves on its surface, however tumultuous they may be at times.

Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.