Quotes About Illusion

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Hold! I must have lost it, said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!

La sua giovinezza gli riapparve portando tutti i ricordi soavi, che sono profumi piuttosto che pensieri. Da quel passato al presente c'era un abisso. Ma la fantasia ha il volto dell'angelo e del baleno; essa varca i mari nei quali abbiamo corso il rischio di naufragare, le tenebre dove si sono perdute le nostre illusioni, gli abissi che hanno inghiottito la nostra felicità

falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Une illusion de moins, c'est une vérité de plus.

Luego todo parecía que se confundiese y se borrase a su vista, como las últimas sombras de una linterna mágica que se apaga, hallándose de nuevo en la habitación de las estatuas, iluminada totalmente por una de esas lámparas antiguas de luz pálida, que en medio de la noche acompañan al sueño o a la voluptuosidad.

Con voi, mio caro conte, non si vive, si sogna.

Definitivamente el vino es un traidor, que hace ver visiones.

Yes, that's as may be; but what about the condemned man?' 'Also a dream, except that he remained asleep, while you woke up. Who can tell which of you is the more fortunate?

Hayat, filozofun gülerek çektiÄŸi ve çeÅŸitli ac?lardan meydana gelen bir tesbihe benzer. Siz de benim gibi filozof olun biraz, gelin masaya içelim ÅŸimdi; hiçbir ÅŸey hayat? bir bardak ÅŸarab?n ard?ndan gözüktüÄŸü kadar toz pembe gösteremez.

Totul, prin urmare, e un vis pe lumea aceasta! Un vis a fost leg?tura inimilor noastre! Aceast? via?? care a b?nuit la dragoste ?i fericire, totul a fost un vis!

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

the pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow--of

rien ne fait paraître l'avenir couleur de rose comme de le regarder à travers un verre de chambertin.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.

Quand on compare ces vaines apparences de la liberté avec l'impuissance réelle qui y était jointe, on y découvre déjà en petit comment le gouvernement le plus absolu peut se combiner avec quelques-unes des formes de la plus extrême démocraties, de telle sorte qu'à l'oppression vienne encore s'ajouter le ridicule de n'avoir pas l'air de la voir

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Through the vistas of the years every age but our own seems glamorous and golden. We yearn for the yesterdays and tomorrows, never realizing that we are faced with Hobson's Choice … that today, bitter or sweet, anxious or calm, is the only day for us. The dream of time is the traitor, and we are all accomplices to the betrayal of ourselves.