Quotes About Illusion

You look like a goddess when you come, did you know that?" "I'm not a goddess." "Not a goddess. Not an angel. Not a devil. Are you a ghost? Because you can't be real." "I'm real.

I put a smile on and pretended it was real.

It was a doll's smile. Plastic. She added a head-tilt and blank gaze.

All of this is fiction And all of it is true

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Anthropologie is not butch, phantom or otherwise. It is Disney with a slightly more sophisticated but no less carefully engineered aesthetic. It is to adult women what princesses are to little girls. It is a twirling motion in the form of an international brand.

I'll venture to suggest that we childless ones, whether through bravery or cowardice, constitute a kind of existential vanguard, forced by our own choices to face the naked question of existence with fewer illusions, or at least fewer consolations, than the rest of humanity, forced to prove to ourselves anew every day that extinction does not negate meaning.

The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.

If drugs could make one realise God, then God is not worthy of being God. No Drugs! Many people in India smoke hashish and ganja, they colours and forms and lights and it makes them elated. But this elevation is only temporary, it is a false experience of illusion, and serves to take one further away from reality.

All those who experience the gross world as real are asleep. Only those who experience it as unreal can realise God and become awakened.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

All the World's a Stage, as master Shakespeare said, and All the Other World's a Fake, as master Science said!

Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.

Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

Darkness uses light as bait on its hook!

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!