Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Happiness will comeToday, tomorrow and every yearNow, then and every moment For if, we learn to love, care and share.Happiness will comeTo fill our heart with kindnessIt is a gift from the universeTo touch our...

He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he’s not still hungry. If he is, I’ll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream.

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.

We’re not under any illusion that we or the teams we are going to be working with are right out of the box going to be in the victory circle. It’s a long-term commitment.

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be...

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of...

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better… But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your...

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one’s own resources.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride…

I have always hated lies; my own and everyone else’s.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn’t take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

We can be seduced…by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to...

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer,...

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

Swinging back and forthdeeply stuck in tranced forbidden dreamWanting not to recognize fantasyis purely schemeElaborate facade of lustinto realityTransferring thoughts of illusionwill be fatality

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

I think it’s real.

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it’s about getting off.

A fly with an elephant on its back would give the illusion of a flying elephant, if that fly were powered by my love for you.

I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make...

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Only a cynic can create horror–for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock...

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: ‘There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we’d go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.