Lynda Barry Quotes

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.