Quotes About Illusion

Me estoy muriendo de aburrimiento en este pueblo y yo no quiero morirme debajo de una muralla de adobe desplomada, yo tengo derecho a ver un poco de luz yo que nunca he salido de este hoyo, porque me engañaron para que me quedara aquí diciéndome que la Japonesita es hija mía.

hambrienta de otra piel, de cualquier piel con tal que fuera caliente y que se pudiera morder y apretar y lamer, los hombres no se daban cuenta ni con qué se acostaban, perro, vieja, cualquier cosa.

ÅŸefkat olmay?nca hayat?n pek deÄŸeri kalm?yor. Åžefkat göstermek beni bazen mutlu ediyor, bazense yan?lt?yor, ki bu ikincisi daha s?k oluyor.

Ä°nsanlar olmayacak masallar anlat?p çocuklar?n her ÅŸeye inanaca??n? zannediyorlar.

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

A lie among the stars Is a comfortable lie.

They come here seeking gold. May you go to their country seeking a different kind of gold for our needs! But remember, all that glisters is not gold.

Vio el mar por primera vez. En la distancia el mar era azul. Incuestionablemente azul. Sintió la felicidad de comprobar. Corrió desnudo por la arena de una playa sin turistas hasta que las olas le salpicaron la cara. Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

I have not lost the meaning of life, merely the illusion that life has a meaning.

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Indeed, nothing is more common among men than an entire blindness to their own real characters. How long have I placed my happiness in mere chimeras! How often have I grounded my vain hopes upon imaginary foundations?

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people.

Revel in the fulsome flattery, dear fool! It does not stop war from being a filthy trick.

The facts shouldn't get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.