Quotes About Illusion

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

She understood that the truth of things was upside down. She grasped that those who thought they knew were ignorant, that those who thought they had power were powerless, and that those who thought they knew themselves were in great darkness.

You take every day for granted. That for you is real. But if you stop taking it for granted it becomes unreal. Unreality makes the work real. If you remember how unreal the world is, you will be fine

I showed you that it is unreality that makes the world real. ' 'I don't understand' 'You take every day for granted. That for you is real. But if you stop taking it for granted it becomes unreal. Unreality makes the world real. If you remember how unreal the world is, you will be fine

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Because you rejected my love, this is my curse on you. Refusing to love an illusion, you will have to love without illusion.

Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.

bisognerebbe mettere in croce, a trent'anni, ogni fanatico, perché colui che è stato un illuso, rinsavito, si converte in briccone

No world is rock real. As a certain poet in Dublin once said to me when, as a young journalist, I was emerging one enchanted evening, from a reception in a fashion-modelling agency, and had marvelled to him about the unreality, or it seemed to me to be, of the world in which those beautiful creations pirouetted. No world, the poet said sadly, is rock real.

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Verdaderamente —decía él—, ¿por qué no ha de ser una cosa más real que la otra?¿Por qué no ha de ser sueño lo del día y vida efectiva lo de la noche? Es cuestión de nombres y de que diéramos en llamar dormir a lo que llamamos despertar, y acostarse al levantarse...

Doña Flora de Cisniega era una vieja que se empeñaba en permanecer joven: tenía más de cincuenta años; pero ponía en práctica todos los artificios imaginables para engañar al mundo, aparentando la mitad de aquella cifra aterradora.

I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.

Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos.

Somewhat similar is another effect called anamorphosis. This is an amazing technique that makes an image literally "morph" into another shape or image when the viewer looks at it from a different angle. Only highly skilled artists who had also mastered

Could if be that there is something dubious about hope and that when hope has disappeared from a man's life his life assumes a more severe and positive character? Could it be that life seems so much the more real when all illusions have vanished, just as the contours of a mountain ridge appear more clearly on the horizon when the clouds are gone?

There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.

Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

They're always wrong in the movies.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect