“When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“We are the unholy. We are the bastard sons of your media culture. Our minds, eyes, and bodies were born of your exclusion, an illusion you hide behind.”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“Dreams are neurological illusions, yet this fact can be proven only on waking up. If you are already awake in the typical sense—walking around, talking to other people, going to work, etc.—it’s easy to believe that this world is independently real and not another kind of neurological illusion. But t…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature w…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there.”— Ryū Murakami, amazon.com
“The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there’s a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“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.”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Time itself is an illusion. Always think: ‘I'll be there before I know it.’ And you'll prove yourself right each time.”— Paul Hudson, elitedaily.com
“The unreal is more powerful than the real because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”— Miranda July, amazon.com