Carrie Fisher Quotes

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Success has always been a great liar.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

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.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

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.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

Everything you see is not always real.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

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