Quotes About Illusion

Closure' - reassurance for the weak-kneed that their futile anguish has been leavened by a minor illusion of being in control … most often derived from obtaining a nibble of revenge.

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.