Quotes About Illusion

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.

When it comes to being famous, you're usually the last to know, and the first to deny it. Unless you were already famous in your head. In which case, party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

There's no way that you're real, " she murmured to his crotch.

Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

I've learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.