Quotes about Illusion
I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.
- Paulo Coelho
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- Oscar Wilde
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
- Lily Tomlin
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
- Gia Coppola
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
- Marilyn Monroe
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
- Marilyn Monroe
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
- Vernon Howard
In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.
- Tina Fey
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
- Mark Twain
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.
- Philip K. Dick