Quotes About Illusion

A silk stocking filled with mud.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

E quando si vedono le cose future con tanta chiarezza, come già stessero succedendo, allora è segno che non devono succedere mai. Perchè son già successe, in un certo senso, nella nostra testa, e non è più consentito di provarle davvero.

A woman's breasts welcome illusion and the imaginative opportunities of clothing.

I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that's magic, then I believe in it.

?nimy we ?nie, ?nimy na jawie. Nieustannie tkwi?c w stanie snu, ?nimy nieraz, ?e si? budzimy.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

[On the Hollywood studio system:] A sargasso of the imagination!

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed.

Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.

Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love.

Reality always seemed pale in comparison with the stark beauty of fantasy.

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Our society's drive for the "Great American Dream" has become a nightmare! It keeps many potential moral supporters lulled in a stupor of spiritual inactivity.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Naturally, bureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.