Quotes About Illusion

Poi prevalse la consapevolezza che la vita è sostanzialmente incoerente e la prevedibilità dei fatti una illusoria consolazione.

Cómo hemos podido no saber, durante tanto tiempo, nada de lo que era y, a pesar de todo, sentarnos a la mesa de todas las cosas y personas que íbamos encontrando a lo largo del camino? Corazones pequeños -los alimentamos con grandes ilusiones y al final del proceso caminamos igual que discípulos hacia Emaús, ciegos, al lado de amigos y amores que no reconocemos -fiándonos de un Dios que ya no sabe nada sobre sí mismo-

C'era una moquette che imitava delle piastrelle di cotto toscano ma dato che era alta quattro centimetri non le riusciva granché bene.

Uno tiene sus sueños, cosas suyas, íntimas, y después la vida no quiere seguir jugando contigo, y te lo desmonta, un instante, una frase, y todo se desvanece. Suele ocurrir. Por esta razón y no por otra vivir es una tarea dolorosa.

Per tutto il tempo che concesse al destino, solo ombre e silenzi furono ciò che quel singolare palcoscenico lasciò filtrare

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!

happiness blinds man more than arrogance

Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.

Believe me, there's nothing more brittle than human beauty. Encounter it. Savour it, by all means. Then watch how it turns to dust.

She imagined what it must be like to have Charlie's mind - to believe that red shoes are faster then other shoes; to believe, as he did, that ducks could drive fire engines and that pigs built houses out of bricks and straw. There were plenty of people who weren't three-and-three-quarters who believed equally implausible things...and when to war over them.

You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody, and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.

people who believed not that the end was coming—as some people did—but that it had actually come, and we had simply failed to notice

he had said that he had used a camera obscura device to paint his pictures. It had seemed such an unlikely theory, and yet Hockney's explanation made it seem so feasible. It was all to do with angles and perspective, and when you came to look at a Vermeer, there was a definite photographic feel to the artist's work.

He took to wearing a Greek merchant navy captain's cap, and spending his mornings at the marina telling the staff what to do. "Sure thing, Captain Eddie," they replied. But they never did what he asked them to do, and Eddie never noticed. So everybody was content.

all those things that sound so right were often just poetry, really—the gravy we put on reality to make it taste a bit better.

A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.

love was a form of blindness that closed the eyes to the most glaring faults.

How complex this world is, he thought; how easily may things appear to be one thing and then prove to be another. And how easy it was to see the worst

Love was a form of blindness that closed eyes of the most glaring faults. You could love a murderer, and simply not believe that your lover would do so much as crush a tick, let alone kill somebody." (Pg.46)

what is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.' 'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.