Marguerite Young Quotes

Very few of us are what we seem.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

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

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously