Quotes about Illusion

There's a lot of things look better at a distance

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

On and on we go, for the mental consciousness labours under the illusion that there is somewhere to go to, a goal to consciousness. Whereas of course there is no goal. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.

The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

We find we have little to guide us in our search and must put trust in the only power we have, that natural instinct that propels us toward creation, choice, liberation and change. We must yield to the challenge of becoming fully human and trust in our human processes in the hope that they will lead us there. Our challenge then is clear, to make as much of the illusion as possible a reality. After all, our reality is no more than what was once our illusion.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.