Quotes about Illusion

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened." Mark Twain

I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

Everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.