Quotes About Illusion

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies.

What is the world's greatest lie?...It is this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what is happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate

When you see it, its leaving, when you need it, its gone, when you have no use for it at all, its right infront of you.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call reality . However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion.

We are entitled to the ability of living our dreams, but we also possess the weakness of letting reality seem too real.

In my dream you are mine but in my life you are a dream.

What screws us up most in life, is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...

Convincing my dog I really threw the ball is the closest I'll ever get to being a magician.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.