62 Best Illusion Quotes

You're just a phantom. – Mima Kirigoe

When life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door. – Robert Hunter ("Uncle John's Band")

The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter, either side of the hill. – Robert Hunter ("Ramble On Rose")

Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can! – Jay Gatsby

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. – Nick Carraway

Her voice is full of money. – Jay Gatsby

I’m paralyzed with happiness. – Daisy Buchanan

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. – Nick Carraway

He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it. – Nick Carraway

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. – Nick Carraway

I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. That their sensory experience constituted a unique individual. Purpose drawn from a lifetime of choices. – Rust Cohle

It’s all a dream. We are all in Carcosa now. Lemonheads and salt and iron and ashy, cloudy skies. – The Killer

He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. – Tom

See, the people, they come to me, they can't face the truth. They want fantasy. – Tom

That was the culture. We were led to believe that we were making a thousand dollars a week when we were making 200.

Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it. – Frank Underwood

The president is a guest in my house. His power is an illusion. I let him believe it’s real. – Frank Underwood

We live in a kingdom of bullshit. A kingdom you’ve lived in for far too long. – Mr. Robot

Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician. – Dr. Robert Ford

The newcomers are just rich kids, indulging their fantasies. They don’t see the truth of this world. – Maeve Millay

You don't build a business, you build a religion. – Gaston Means

Atlantic City was always a beautiful lie. – Nucky Thompson

Family is the only real thing. Everything else is just an illusion. – Omar Navarro

The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it is more real than the real thing. – Akio Furukawa

A doll's house, that's what this is. A nice, safe, little world, and you're the master of it. – Major Motoko Kusanagi to the garbage man

The only thing that's real is the illusion. – Garbage Man

The film is a lie, but it represents a truth. – Genya Tachibana

She was always running, always chasing a phantom. – Genya Tachibana

It's all part of the show, folks! Watch closely, now! – Genie

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

In order to obtain a pleasure, one must first be convinced that it is important, and so one must deceive oneself.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

The past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

The land they had fought for so many years was nothing but an illusion.

He was still too young to know that the memory of the heart eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you were the inspiration of it.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so. – Santiago

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It’s ‘winner take nothing’ that is the great truth of our country or of any country.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

Let us rejoice in what we are! – The Wizard

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! – The Wizard

I fell in love with the idea of him before I fell in love with the actual him.

You think you're a big man now? You're nothing but a puppet. – Dolores

There is no spoon. – Spoon Boy

Ignorance is bliss. – Cypher

Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue pill? – Cypher

I thought it wasn't real. – Neo

You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. – Morpheus