Quotes About Illusion

rien n'est blanc ou noir et que le blanc, c'est souvent le noir qui se cache et le noir, c'est parfois le blanc qui s'est fait avoir.

Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a good front, and keeping it up at all costs. Yes, and you make a bundle of those wrapping papers of yours! And now you yourself are nothing but wrapping paper. With nothing inside.

And you can't judge men by what they when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks they dress up--they even put on uniforms, flags and decorations.

Analogies are like lies.

As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

And yet he thought incense was made from the bones of saints, that leather continued to grow if not dyed, that if he concentrated hard enough his body's electrical currents could stun lake frogs as he bathed.

Jesse sat low in the chair with his boots kicked out, drew off the soft red cap by its cotton ball, then reached out and snuggled Tim close to his chest. He said, "Let me tell you a secret, son: there's always a mean old wolf in Grandma's bed, and a worm inside the apple. There's always a daddy inside the Santa suit. It's a world of trickery.

Denial and hope, of course, are cousins. Bring them together, you've got illusion.

The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.

?nsanlar iyimser define avc?lar? gibidirler, ruhlar?nda mücevher ke?feder dururlar. Oysa çak?l ta?lar?ndan ba?ka bir ?ey degildir mücevher dedikleri.

It has façades of a hardware store, a hotel, a restaurant, a bar, and a bank. Real cars are parked in front.

I really have a nice step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.

Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about Afghanistan, the public knows even less, and few care about policy failure when the effects are felt only in Afghanistan.

Abstractions that we unwittingly treat as physical reality tend to block us from seeing the way things are, and therefore reduce our power to accomplish what we say we want.

I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.

L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sûr de ses droits.

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

Ah ! Dostum ! Ä°nan?n bana, bu dünya asl?nda tamamen insanlarla taÅŸak geçmek için yarat?lm?? koskocaman bir kand?rmacad?r.

This world, I assure you, is only a vast device for kidding the world!

Viaggiare, è proprio utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto è delusione e fatica. Il viaggio che ci è dato è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte. Uomini, bestie, città e cose, è tutto inventato. E' un romanzo, nient'altro che una storia fittizia. Lo dice Littrè, lui non sbaglia mai. E poi in ogni caso, tutti possono fare altrettanto. Basta chiudere gli occhi. E' dall'altra parte della vita.

As the savage progresses, he acquires experience and formulates codes of 'right' and 'wrong' from his memories of those courses which have helped or hurt him... Then out of the principle of barter comes the illusion of 'justice' ...

I've learned the hard way," she said, holding Jonathan's letter, "that people aren't always what they seem to be at first." "But sometimes they are," Sam said.

She thought the jimster (Jack Daniels) would cure whatever was wrong with her- whatever made her feel like she was in a hall of mirrors, watching herself go through the motions of having a riotous good time