Quotes about Illusion
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
- Lily Tomlin
Love hurts because we think that's what love is.
- Marty Rubin
If whiteness is an illusion, on what else can a poor man without prospects pride himself?
- Toni Morrison
A blessing she was reckless enough to take for granted, lean on, as though Sweet Home was one... A bigger fool never lived.
- Toni Morrison
But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
- Toni Morrison
Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible. The thing that Saul's daughter had done to David. But Janie had done worse...
- Toni Morrison
The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane.
- Toni Morrison
Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.
- Toni Morrison
To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.
- Carl Jung
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
- Mark Twain
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- GK Chesterton
Time is an illusion-to orators.
- Elbert Hubbard