Quotes About Illusion

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion.

All that glitters is not gold, and things that look warm are often cold!

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

The sun thought that Jerusalem was a sea and set in her: a terrible mistake.

La política era algo que se había centrado en el ego, como una nube que parece sólida pero en realidad no es otra cosa que vapor.

From my own experience I know that the cruelest thing is to make a person doubt his own reality...

Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope

Who among us dares to assert that our memories are not tainted by time, sweetest poison and bitterest antidote, untrustworthy ally, and reliable annihilator?