Quotes About Illusion

It's full of festering poison, this place, and it looks as peaceful and as innocent as the Garden of Eden." "Even there," said Owen drily, "there was one serpent.

Although everyone knows death comes in the end, you have this stupid mind which keeps on saying, 'But I won't die today . . .' right up to the moment of death!

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

Greta avevo capito com'ero fatto fin dal primo momento in cui mi aveva conosciuto. Non avevamo mai nutrito stupide illusioni l'uno sul conto dell'altra. Lei aveva il mio stesso tipo di mentalità, desiderava le stesse cose che desideravo io. Volevamo il Mondo, e non ci saremmo accontentati d'altro. Volevamo tutto ciò che la vita poteva offrirci. Volevamo soddisfare qualunque ambizione. Volevamo avere tutto, non volevamo negarci niente.

Truth," she said, "is seldom romantic.

To begin with, nobody actually heard the shot. Two or three women say they did because they want to think they did - but that's all there is to it.

Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don't you? She's very real. But if the sun were to shine you wouldn't be able to see her at all. It was rather like that. I was the moon…When the sun came out, Simon couldn't see me any more…He was dazzled. He couldn't see anything but the sun–Linnet.

Los ojos ven, a veces lo que se ha querido que vieran.

The truth is," said Evelyn, "that one doesn't really know anything about anybody." She added, "Not even the people who are nearest to you…." "Isn't that going a little too far, Evelyn—exaggerating too much?" "I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself." "I know you," said Edward Hillingdon quietly. "You think you do.

Sommige van de grootste misdadigers die ik heb gekend hadden engelengezichten,' sprak Poirot opgewekt. 'Een misvorming van de grijze cellen kan heel goed samengaan met het gezicht van een madonna.

Hasta el propio Romeo, como sabes, tuvo su Rosalinda antes de que le sorbiera el seso Julieta.

La gente que más daño nos hace es la que nos escuda contra la realidad.

Pero recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

Not at all," said Mrs. Oliver. "Least likely person. It seems to work out in real life just the same as in books.

Sometimes—things seem unreal. I can't believe, this minute, that it ever happened…." Marshall said slowly: "I think I know what you mean. Nature is so regardless! One ant the less—that's all it is in Nature!" Rosamund said: "Yes—and that's the proper way to look at it really.

Prego, mio caro; ci si può sempre ingannare. Guardi una grande attrice: la sua mimica del dolore commuove e scuote, tanto è vera.

Recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

But you know, my dear," said Poirot gently, "people are never like what you remember them. You make them as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make than far more so than they actually were.

That she can reform a rake," said Poirot, "has always been one of women's dearest illusions!

Tapi, panggung bukanlah sebuah kenyataan

Could she ever know him? Could he ever know her? Or would they always hold fast to what they imagined of each other so that life together would for each be more lonely than life alone?

I think the truth is…you fell for a face and a body and then put the person inside you wanted to find there.

Prospero, you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (Lied about the world, lied about me) That you have ended by imposing on me An image of myself. Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior, That s the way you have forced me to see myself I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie! But now I know you, you old cancer, And I know myself as well.