Quotes About Illusion

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

The sad thing is I actually thought you were different...

We are unable to Realize WHO WE ARE because the Mind Wanders and the Senses Desire and thus, we continue to BE WHO WE ARE NOT.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.