Quotes about Illusion

The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

We find we have little to guide us in our search and must put trust in the only power we have, that natural instinct that propels us toward creation, choice, liberation and change. We must yield to the challenge of becoming fully human and trust in our human processes in the hope that they will lead us there. Our challenge then is clear, to make as much of the illusion as possible a reality. After all, our reality is no more than what was once our illusion.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.