Quotes About Illusion

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

Muéstrale tu verdadero corazón, es el único truco de magia posible.

I feel as disappointed as if I'd just opened a parcel full of ghosts.

Le comble de la séduction, c'est de lui donner l'illusion que tu n'es pas en train d'essayer de la séduire.

Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.

the unfortunate case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks disguised only by lemon juice rubbed on his face. He believed this would make him invisible to security cameras.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

Ill show you a Sweet dream

A snake charmer and a clown A treasure that never was A gift from the deity Itzamna: from 9.10.5.10.7 to 11.17.2.13.10

Failure is a trick of the light.

Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and he certainly tried to be happy, but sometimes being happy is quite tricky. I suppose what I am saying is that Nikloas was a boy who believed in happiness, the way he believed in elves and trolls and pixies, but he had never actually seen an elf or a troll or a pixie, and he hadn't really seen proper happiness either. At least, not for a very long time. He didn't have it easy.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are is not how happy you are.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream and stick with it. Everything else was a con.And once you had tasted truth and love in the same potent cocktail there had to be no more tricks.

If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.

Der Turm ist meine Lieblingsfigur", sagte sie jetzt. "Man denkt, man müsse nicht auf ihn achten. Weil er sich immer unkompliziert geradeaus bewegt. Dame, Springer und Läufer behält man im Auge, weil sie sich heimlich anschleichen. Aber gerade der Turm wird einem oft zum Verhängnis. Das Umkomplizierte ist nie ganz das, was es zu sein scheint." - S. 104

El pasado y el futuro son mitos. El pasado no es más que un presente muerto y el futuro, en cualquier caso, nunca existirá, porque para cuando uno llega al futuro ya se ha convertido en presente.