Lauren DeStefano Quotes

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Color deceives continuously.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Things are not what they seem.

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

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

One illusion is as good as another.