Libba Bray Quotes

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Everything you see is not always real.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

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.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

Things don't always look as they seem.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.