Quotes about Illusion

Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.

Blue is light seen through a veil.

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I remember this one time I had a dream about me writing a screenplay, and when I woke up, you know those dreams that feel so real, but I woke up and I was like, 'Oh my god I have this amazing screenplay I need to write down as soon as I wake up' and then I woke up and I was like what the heck was I dreaming of?

Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children—laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. Trust, shame, justice, truth—"gone from the earth and only found in heaven." Why are you still here? Sensory objects are shifting and unstable; our senses dim and easily deceived

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.