Quotes About Illusion

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Hope, the great deceiver, seduced her that morning.

Does reliability reinforce your illusion of control? If so, I wonder if in developed countries (I won't use the hateful term civilized), the treacherous, illusion-crushing process of aging is more difficult to bear. Am I having an easier time than women my age in London? Marie-Thérèse

The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.

You have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

It's just that our memories are rarely where we think they are.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I

From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

The Stronger is the imagination the less imaginary it is

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.

It is easy to drown yourself effortlessly into that which is truly profound and do no realise its true worth. And since the restless illusion which brings no pleasure even if you drain it to the dregs lead us by the nose and makes us dance a merry dance to its tune and we take it to be the lost desirable thing

He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.

Y?ld?zlar ateÅŸ böceÄŸi san?lmaktan korkmazlar.

He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being. XXX

we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.

Leemos mal el mundo, y decimos luego que nos engaña.

Lo que eres no lo ves, y lo que ves es tu sombra

Beauty is sweet to us, because she dances to the same fleeting tune with our lives. Knowledge is precious to us, because we shall never have time to complete it. All is done and finished in the eternal Heaven. But earth's flowers of illusion are kept eternally fresh by death.

to justify their own spilling of ink they spell the day as night

In its swelling pride The bubble doubts the truth of the sea And laughs and bursts into emptiness

Le illusioni sono necessarie per le menti semplici, e la maggioranza delle persone è semplice. Ecco perché ovunque nel mondo abbiamo creato delle divinità. Gli uomini sono fin troppo consapevoli delle loro debolezze.