Quotes About Illusion

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We

Physical beauty, of all the curses, was obviously the best you could get. It was still a curse though.

Because who can say in the end that any one of these places is more real than any other?

Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Que importaria la distancia si solo fuera un sueno

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Ma che cos'è un sogno, Conor O'Malley? Chi può dire che non sia un sogno tutto il resto?

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

She listened, then opened up the door and looked again. Nothing. But simply seeing did not help. She knew that seeming wasn't hardly half of things.

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

A veces, la realidad es solo dolor, y para huir de ese dolor, la mente tiene que abandonar la realidad.

If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.

and he was absolutely not a selas sort.

Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.

No es lo mismo la verdad que lo que desearíamos que fuera verdad.

She knew the cave wasn't very deep. But everything seems bigger in the dark.

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. Sighing,

Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It

These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can't be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought.