Quotes About Illusion

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

He didn't liehe just gave her false hopes~

In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!

Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.