Quotes About Illusion

Les hommes désespèrent stupidement de l'amour - j'en ai désespéré - ils vivent asservis à cette idée que l'amour est toujours derrière eux, jamais devant eux : les siècles passés, le mensonge de l'oubli à vingt ans. Ils supportent, ils s'aguerrissent à admettre surtout que l'amour ne soit pas pour eux, avec son cortège de clartés, ce regard sur le monde qui est fait de tous les yeux de devins.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

The queen has kept changing. The truth is I've never met the queen...well, never exactly her, do you understand?

Painting was forced, as it turned out, to offer us illusion and this illusion was reckoned sufficient unto art. Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism.

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Într-adev?r, toÈ›i oamenii luau lumea în serios, convinÈ™i de realitatea ei. ?i numai el È™tia cât de puÈ›in ajunge pentru a face universul lor de nerecunoscut.

And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug people, to distract their attention from the serious problems and divert them with a Romeo-and-Juliet story, one scripted, however, by a soap opera writer.

Pensiamo di essere i padroni delle nostre vite, e non è vero. Le uniche cose che possiamo controllare sono marginali, rispetto al resto.

Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain

But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.

Nas?l da canl?yd? hepsi. Nas?l da çabuk bitti rüya.

Ama hayat bir romandan ibaret de?ildir; kendini sanatsal bir varl?k, bir sanat eseri sayacak kadar kibirli insanlar aksini dü?ünebilirler ancak.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

Morphine is like a religious zealot on a mission; it searches for body parts to convert, offering milk-and-honeyed dreams to flow sluggishly through your veins.

We felt uncomfortable in a country that called itself "the land of the free" but did not do much to qualify for the claim.

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing…" "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs…

There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.