Reality vs. Illusion Quotes

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

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

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

Photography threatens fantasy.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

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

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.