Quotes About Illusion

A shroud lies ahead and behind many truths. Reality is (sometimes) a glass wall no ray of light reaches.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

We are all pilgrims, in search of destiny, of a soul, an illusion, of a land of immortality.

The power of the visibleis the invisible.

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame." --

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Fear is like an illusion of a dangerous wall between you and your goal.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.