Quotes About Illusion

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

I am the false character that follows the name around.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.