Illusory Quotes

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

a delusion and a sham ... an empty menace to the great interest, made to answer the clamor of the ignorant and the unreasoning.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

That which is cannot be true.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

... that false and flatulent and foolish paper.