Quotes About Illusion

Nothing is as it seems.

You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel

A los violentos les encantaría que todos participáramos en su juego. Así tendrían pruebas de esa guerra que solo existe en sus cabezas

And so we continued, making love, for over two hundred years and when we finished, five hours later, we realized that our building had been knocked down three months previously and that our room had become a space ship of flesh and bone.

Sembraste sueños, recogiste un tiro de gracia.

The only freedom the gods grant usIs this: to submitOf our own free will to their sovereignty.We should do just that,Since only in the illusion of freedomDoes freedom exist.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.

Créeme, las circunstancias nunca suelen ser favorables. No hay que depender de ellas. Lo importante es lo que uno siente, lo que uno quiere, lo que uno sabe. Tenemos que vivir a pesar de la realidad e incluso contra ella, sin esperar a que nos sea propicia como hacne los ilusos, o los cobardes.

In order for the reader to believe the lies I'll tell, first I need to build a normal, everyday, believable environment ... Say, a scenario or, rather, a set design. And then, gradually, we could say surreptitiously, I introduce later the fact or facts that could never happen in real life.

Aunque por la luz vemos lo que vemos, la esencia de la luz es que no la podamos ver

Me da lo mismo el amor que el odio. Y no me exijan verdad que la verdad es inestable, escurridiza, avasiva. una quimera con cola de humo

Lo que pasa es que la felcidad es una pompa de jabón que da visos, pero que no bien uno la mira se revienta. Uno tiene que ser feliz sin saberlo

Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.

Creemos que existimos pero no, somos un espejismo de la nada, un sueño de basuco

La palabra se inventó para mentir, en ella no cabe la verdad. El hombre es un mentiroso nato y la realidad no se puede apresar con palabras, así como un río no se puede apresar con las manos. El río fluye y se va, y nosotros con él.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

By a fortunate dispensation of providence, Russians possess a natural gift of make-believe. ... For them, as for no other race, the real and the imaginary, the actual and the symbolic, the literal and the figurative, tend to overlap and become one.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.