John Fowles Quotes

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I only appear to be dead.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.