Quotes about Illusion

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.

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