Quotes About Illusion

Je vu quelques fois, ce que l'homme à cru voir

The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.

He malgastado mi vida. ¡Vamos! Finjamos, holguemos, ¡oh piedad! Y existiremos divirtiéndonos, soñando amores monstruosos y universos fantásticos, quejándonos y combatiendo las apariencias del mundo, saltimbanqui, mendigo, artista, bandido, ¡sacerdote! Sobre mi lecho de hospital, el olor del incienso retornó a mí tan potente; guardián de aromas sagrados, confesor, mártir…

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

La realtà di una notte, e anzi neppure quella di un'intera vita umana, non significano, al tempo stesso, anche la loro più profonda verità ». « E nessun sogno » disse egli con un leggero sospiro « è interamente un sogno ».

his hands as if her were

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing.

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and forces one of the combatants, sooner or later, to make a mistake. It is therefore merely a matter of keeping Fate at bay long enough for the other man to make a mistake first. Anything else is pure illusion.

Lo cierto, piensa el joven mientras camina por semejante cementerio, es que no hay nada bello ni romántico en un soldado muerto. Eso queda para las pinturas de los museos, los versos de los poetas y la demagogia de los políticos. La realidad inmediata sólo es carne muerta, carroña pudriéndose al sol.

Goûtons un peu ce simulacre de bonheur

Porque la religión es la mayor forma de engaño inventada por el hombre.

Ellas te matan y sigues andando y no sabes que estás muerto.

No es lo mismo desvestir santos que vestirlos. Manejar ideas que afrontar hechos...

Has conseguido lo que pocos consiguen en la vida: aparentar exactamente lo que eres, y que parezca que lo aparentas.

El hombre..., cree ser el amante de una mujer, cuando en realidad es sólo su testigo.

No se da cuenta, de que, precisamente, para ustedes la felicidad es esa vaga ilusión inalcanzable de estar haciendo una cosa distinta de la que hacemos, de estar viviendo de un modo distinto del que vivimos, de ser otros de los que somos. Es un concepto enteramente pueril. ?No es un concepto, es un sentimiento. Uno no llega a ser feliz porque lo sabe, sino que alcanza a ser feliz cuando lo siente.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

All form, therefore, is like a dream, And who will be attached to it, who thus investigates? The body, in this way, has no existence; What, therefore, is male and what is female?

When ordinary folk perceive phenomena, They look on them as real, and not illusory. This, then, is the subject of debate Where ordinary and yogis differ.

Relative and ultimate, These the two truths are declared to be. The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative.

Through a Buddha, who is but illusion, how does merit spring?" As if the Buddha were existing truly. "But," you ask, "if beings are like illusions, How, when dying, can they take rebirth?