illusion

GHOSTS IN THE MINDThere are no ghosts among the livingThe only real ghosts exist in our mindsSo fear not the dead but the livingBecause the living can harm but not their ghostHave you ever seen a dead man risen?Don__ you see that nobody comes from the grave? It__ because the dead are nice to each otherEven the vilest repent, and are kind to their neighborsEach one content with the land of their lying

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

The more important one feels the greater the illusion is.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need _ as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.

It's easier to believe the most outlandish lie that confirms what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it.

You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.

But love _ don__ we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It__ only a story one makes up in one__ mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn__ true. Of course one knows; why, one__ always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Don't talk to strangers. Don't do drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't have sex. Wear a condom. Wear sunblock. Wear a seat belt. Wear a helmet. If you see something, say something. Just say no. Stop, drop, and roll. Stop, look, and listen. Look both ways before you cross the street...Safety is an illusion. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not. You can check left, check right, check left again before you step off the curb and into the crosswalk, but that won't stop an anonymous asshole in his shitty pickup from putting you in intensive care...

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Sanity is an illusion. Created by the minds of people who fear the wicked.