Quotes About Illusion

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Do you never imagine things different from what they really are? asked Anne wide-eyed. No. Oh! Anne drew a long breath. Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!

She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream?

No sabes reconocer el amor. Has imaginado el amor como una sensación determinada y quieres que en la vida real sea así.

you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

She felt very old and mature and wise—which showed how young she was. She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now—the glory and the dream?

Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" "No." "Oh! Oh, Miss – Marilla, how much you miss!

Hayaller s?k s?k gerçekleÅŸmez, deÄŸil mi? GerçekleÅŸseydi güzel olmaz m?yd??

Has creado en tu imaginación algo que crees que es el amor y esperas que la realidad se parezca a ello.

now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.

Did you really say it? Or did I imagine that you did? I think you'd better learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't, said Marilla crossly.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

Den själarnas vackra maskerad som vi kallar kärlek... Där gyckelbilderna möts... Och tror att deras värld är upphöjd och skön!

No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.

I live in Hollywood where truth is a speech defect.

Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.

He was still the captain, but no one had seemed to notice that there was no troop and no war.

The air smelled of ozone and puppeteers.

It's actually wonderful to see that you're nobody and that all the fear you've had all your life was in relation to this self you thought you had.

and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

But being absent and being peaceful are two different things. They can look alike, but they are really the opposite.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.