Quotes About Illusion

But, Dandelion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Don't mistake the stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

Mistrust regarding me?' 'Regarding the world, Ciri. A world in which a deceptive appearance dons the mask of truth to pull the wool over the eyes of another truth - a false one, incidentally, which also tries to deceive.

Ai confundat cerul cu stelele reflectate noaptea pe suprafata unui lac

There's no such thing as devils!" yelled the poet, shaking the cat from sleep once and for all. "No such thing! To the devil with it, devils don't exist!" "True." Geralt smiled. "But, Dandilion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

Die Leute [...] denken sich gern Ungeheuer und Ungeheuerlichkeiten aus. Sie selbst kommen sich dann weniger ungeheuerlich vor.

Like all cats, they could see what was invisible and could not be deceived by a simple spell. 'This parade

Foolish indeed is he who lends credence to dreams and treads the path of delusion. Nonetheless, whoever disdains and does not believe them at all also acts unwisely. For if dreams had no import whatsoever why, then, would the Gods, in creating us, give us the ability to dream?

Hicimos el amor. Y hablamos. Y nuestras mentiras fueron cada vez más hermosas. Y cada vez más falsas.

You mistook the stars reflected in a pond at night for the sky.

During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councilors, councilors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows and kings who looked like thieves. But Stregobor always looked as, according to every rule and notion, a wizard should look.

Attraverso la Cortina strappata passeranno allucinazioni. È una buona definizione di qualcosa che non ha una forma propria, ma la trova nel cervello di chi la osserva. Sempre che quel cervello sopporti una simile prova.

Nulla è come sembra.» «Un'affermazione ineccepibile. Che ci conduce inesorabilmente alla conclusione che noi, Ciri, non sappiamo nulla l'uno dell'altra. Conosciamo solo le apparenze e quelle ingannano.»

A las gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades, entonces parecen menos monstruosos asi mismos

The young sorceress would become attractive because the prestige of her profession demanded it. The result was pseudo-pretty women with the angry and cold eyes of ugly girls who couldn't forget their ugliness had been covered by the mask of magic only for the prestige of their profession.

Du hast den Himmel mit den Sternen verwechselt, die sich nachts im Teich spiegeln.

The result was pseudo-pretty women with the angry and cold eyes of ugly girls. Girls who couldn't forget their ugliness had been covered by the mask of magic only for the prestige of their profession.

for verily I do say to you that those magicians are like whitened graves, beautiful on the outside but full of putrefaction and rotten bones on the inside!

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?