Quotes About Illusion

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

A life was no goddamn thing in the end, he thought. Bits and pieces of make-believe cobbled together to look halfways human, like some stick-and-rag doll meant to scare crows out of the garden. No goddamn thing at all.

As a simple fact. Many people think they can postpone repentance till the end. This is an illusion. Most men die as they have lived. If death is sudden, there is no time for it. If it comes gradually, there is usually little energy for the revision of an entire way of being.

Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

There is beauty in the world. There is no reason for it to be here. If it's all biology, all eating and getting eaten and the strongest devouring the weakest, then it's madness. Nothing more than madness. It's dying and drowning, and all love is illusion. But there is love, you see. Poor, weak, and broken love—a sign of something from a distant land.

Perhaps, after all, his anguish was so persuasive that it could eclipse the most real things and make them appear as shadows, and at the same time make shadows into an appearance of the real.

The dragon. Just when you think he's getting smaller and smaller, no bigger than a lapdog, he opens his little mouth and swallows the whole world in one gulp.

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

What are the options then? Immerse yourself in a regular job of work which will give you the illusion of solidity and safety through activity, so that you are prevented from ever having to address the real issues of your life...In this sense activity is the soul's worst enemy and should be avoided.

Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

Kapitalizmin en ba?ar?l? güven numaralar?ndan biri herkesin milyoner olabilece?i yan?lsamas?n? yayabilmesidir. Oysa zirvede sadece birkaç ki?iye yer vard?r ve zirvede yer alabilecek beceriye çok az ki?i sahiptir.

transforms the victim's head into a pumpkin.

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174) Intimidating Snape Harry was so scared of Alan Rickman because "he was so fantastic at what he did I was freaked" that he had to keep telling himself "it's only a film, it's only a film ... nothing's real".

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.

Ponzi austerity schemes, just like Ponzi growth schemes, necessitate a constant influx of new capital to support the illusion that bankruptcy has been averted.

reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?

Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people.