The Glass Menagerie Illusion Vs Reality Quotes

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade. ~ Kasie West

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie. ~ Bernadette Peters

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. ~ Erich Fromm

Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine] ~ Kresley Cole

Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality. ~ Steven Redhead

The illusion is we are only physical. ~ Vanna Bonta

When you are in love, reality becomes
illusion and illusion become reality. ~ Debasish Mridha

To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as authentic as the one it hides. Careful attention must be paid to every detail. The slightest of imperfections can, like a pin to a balloon, burst the illusion . . . and the truth behind the illusion becomes revealed. ~ Emily Thorne

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. ~ Mike Mills

'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.' ~ John Lahr

We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon. ~ Sanjo Jendayi

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

All scientific and philosophical ideas about the nature of our existence claim that our experience of life is different to the underlying reality. We are all living in an illusion to some degree. The choice for you is to determine how deep the illusion might go. ~ Christophe Finipolscie

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. ~ Salvador Dali

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing. ~ Jake T. Austin

The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it ceases to be illusion and becomes an expression or aspect of reality and experience. ~ Edward Thomas

If nothing lasted and the world did not exist, all that meant was that reality was not fixed. The illusion she lived in was fluid and mutable, and could be easily altered by someone willing to rewrite the script of reality. ~ R.F. Kuang

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. ~ Stuart Pearson Wright

We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. ~ Robert Anthony

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality. ~ Benito Mussolini

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. ~ Tennessee Williams

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. ~ Alan Watts

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

Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises. ~ Na

An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality. ~ Akiane Kramarik

Reason is the illusion of reality ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer. ~ Lionel Suggs

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. ~ Lobsang Rampa

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. ~ Georges Canguilhem

Based upon quantum mechanics, our physical reality should not be solid. Most likely our physical reality is an elaborate illusion within our own consciousness and the collective consciousness of the Universe/God. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. ~ Theodor Adorno

Klara has always known she's meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and the next. She just has to figure out how. ~ Chloe Benjamin

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? ~ Jay Woodman

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. ~ James Woods

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway. ~ Robert Gottlieb

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. ~ Marty Rubin

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ~ Max Jacob

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. ~ Austin O'Malley

I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that? ... ~ John Geddes

It seems like we can't experience reality no matter how hard we try. Because illusion is always waiting at the end of the tunnel. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Belief in a false reality about another person first manifests in the creators mind by making everything look like proof, then manifests in other people to become reality. Unless noticed. ~ L.H.

I never said that 'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.' It is fake news. Instead, one could say that 'The perception of reality not being real is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.' Reality is as real as it gets in this life time. Go out in nature and you will find that reality is the ultimate manifestation of Love. Reality is you and all of nature's kind. It is very real. It is true Love. Because all of nature is a manifestation of Love. And that includes You. ~ Albert Einstein

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching. ~ Gary Keller

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide. ~ Alice Glass

Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist - who is to say the reality of the dream is not real? ~ Frederick Lenz

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~ Arnold Newman

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible. ~ Squeak Carnwath

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions? ~ Masashi Kishimoto

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you. ~ Bill Hicks

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey. ~ Lance Secretan

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream. ~ Louis Aragon

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality? ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Clavain looked around the room, taking in the gruesome menagerie of wraithlike seniors, wizened elders and obscene glass-bottled end-state Conjoiners. They were all hanging on his answer, even the visible brains seeming to hesitate in their wheezing pulsations. ~ Alastair Reynolds

We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made ​​of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our music resounds with the drums of the past. ~ J.B.Alves

This world you think you know? It's hidden ... in shards of reality. ~ Zechariah Barrett

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol. ~ W.C. Fields

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

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion. ~ Jim Steinmeyer

is satisfying, not frightening, not empty. It is an illusion of reality created by ignorance that is so unbearable. The illusion of separateness, the illusion of connectedness to disconnected hardened hearts and closed minds is the source of the suffering that we would all wish to be free of. ~ Mitch Halper

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. ~ Jacque Fresco

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ~ Slavoj Zizek

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception. ~ Debasish Mridha

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers. ~ John Newman

Nowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate. ~ Ernest Gellner

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that ~ U.G. Krishnamurti

There are three realities of life. The reality that you hold, as your individual's perspective, the actual reality, and the ultimate truth, out of which your perspective and the actual reality take place. ~ Roshan Sharma

My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside. ~ Anthony Liccione

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ~ Jose Saramago

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is. ~ Rockwell Kent

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. ~ N. F. Simpson

I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening. ~ Eavan Boland

The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The 'illusion' turns out to be truth. ~ Harold Clarke Goddard

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. ~ Julia Glass

I should still, paradoxical as it may sound, like to maintain the opposite valuation of the dream in relation to the mysterious foundation of our being, whose phenomena we are. The more aware I become of these omnipotent art impulses in nature, and find in them an ardent longing for illusion and for redemption by illusion, the more I feel compelled to make the metaphysical assumption that the truly existent, the primal Oneness, eternally suffering and contradictory, also needs the delightful vision, the pleasurable illusion for its constant redemption: an illusion that we, utterly caught up in it and consisting of it - as a continuous becoming in time, space and causality, in other words - are required to see as empirical reality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face. ~ T.F. Hodge

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish ~ Saurabh Mathur

Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive??? ~ Deyth Banger

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence. ~ Frederick Lenz

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? ~ Vernor Vinge

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't like when I can't control what reality is doing. Which is unfortunate because reality works independently of the things I want, and I have only a limited number of ways to influence it, none of which are guaranteed to work. I still want to keep tabs on reality, though. Just in case it tries to do anything sneaky. It makes me feel like I'm contributing. The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable. And when that illusion is taken away, I panic. ~ Allie Brosh

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. ~ Yukio Mishima

The eyes can be deceived. People can be deceived. A lie can be used for good ends as well as bad. An illusion that is never dispelled is a reality all of its own. ~ Mark Lawrence

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ~ Simone Weil

Looking around
there is nothing but illusion
Everything is drowned
in the oceans of illusion ~ Rixa White

Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses. ~ Corey Taylor

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. ~ Ernest Becker

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life. ~ Frederick Lenz

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away. ~ Aditya Ajmera

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it. ~ Bill Moyers

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war. ~ Steve Mann

Ruling Akaran is a strange task. In many ways, it is like balancing an illusion. You must separate the illusion of what you see and the reality of its consequences," he said. "Tell me, my queen, are you ready to play with fate? ~ Roshani Chokshi

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap. ~ Pietro Aretino

At the most fundamental level, the level that is the most useful for doing insight practices, we wish desperately that there was some separate, permanent self, and we spend huge amounts of time doing our best to prop up this illusion. In order to do this, we habitually ignore lots of useful information about our reality and give our mental impressions and simplifications of reality much more importance than they are necessarily due. It is this illusion that adds a problematic element to the normal and understandable ways in which we go about trying to be happy. We constantly struggle with reality because we misunderstand it, i.e. because reality misunderstands itself. ~ Daniel M. Ingram