Quotes About Illusion

We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show.

Time to drop the illusion.

No estás saliendo con una mujer, estás saliendo con una mujer que ha visto demasiadas películas escritas por hombres socialmente inadaptados a los que les gustaría creer que este tipo de mujer existe y podría besarles.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick.

This is the unforgiving light of morning,' I whispered back. 'Time to drop the illusion.

Es la hora de romper la ilusión.

You know what I was about to say? I was about to say I don't know what to believe anymore. And then I thought, that's someone else's line. That's a line from a movie, not something I should be saying, and I wonder for a second, am I in a movie? Can I stop being in this movie? Then I know I can't. But for a second, you think, I'll say something different, and this will all change. But it won't, will it?

Hay una diferencia entre querer de verdad a una persona y querer la idea que te has hecho de ella.

books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness. People only need to believe for a few minutes at a time.

Worldly friends are deceptive time-wasters, Life like a flash of lightning in the sky, And material things like bubbles on a stream; Do not cling to them, Jampal Drak.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is -- to live, to work.

Everything about Butch was like puffed air and cotton candy, but it thrilled her anyway whenever he straightened up to call to her through the tall grass.

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.

them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

Since they did not understand one another, each was able to sustain an illusion about the other, which was the usual beginning of love, if not truth.

But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.