Quotes About Illusion

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.

dreamweaves were doing more harm than good. They were endangering people, making them believe in a false sense of security. Resulting in a population of delusional people, running around, taking unnecessary risks. And I think we all know that nothing good comes of that!

No. We don't have gills, and we're not mer-people. Damn, do all you people live your lives believing everyone you meet stepped out of the pages of a comic book? Please. I'd kick Aquaman's ass.

With Quinn, safety wasn't even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Comme les rêves sont cruels, qui nous laissent entrevoir des merveilles pour mieux nous en priver !

Le problème, c'est que ces horreurs puent la vérité.

Bastaba con que, en mi cabeza, creara la ficción de destruir el billete de avión y mi tierna amistad con Rinri se transformaba en un hostil espanto.

In actual fact, creatures like Sabine and myself were the guilty ones: rather than approaching their kin and comforting one another, they loved beyond their means - they needed individuals a thousand miles from their own complexes, they needed Christas, radiant and seductive personalities. And then they were astonished that their friendships turned out badly, as though anything like that could possibly work, a panther with a mouse, a shark with a sardine.

La tragedia consiste nel rivedere la persona e non riconoscerla, o perché in quel momento si scopre in lei un aspetto incredibilmente spiacevole che doveva gia esser presente ma sul quale si era riusciti a illudersi in nome di quella strana forma d'amore così misteriosa e così pericolosa, la cui posta in gioco sfugge continuamente: l'amicizia.

N'espère pas être amoureuse, car tu n'en vaux pas la peine : ceux qui t'aimeraient t'aimeraient pour tes mirages, jamais pour ta vérité.

Donald's monstrosity is the manifestation of the very weakness within him that he's been running from his entire life. For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength, no matter how illusory, because doing anything else carries a death sentence; my father's short life is evidence of that.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better.

The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

Old is when people compliment your alligator shoes, and you're not wearing any.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.