Quotes about Illusion

Not real can tell us about real.

The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.

I'm dreaming that I am awake.

That birthday was the day I discovered that I was a fraud. Or not a fraud, like a bad magician: a fake, like a fake antique. I was a forgery, done on purpose.

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state.

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

Is there no end to his disguises, of benevolence?

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

He said that when he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.