Quotes About Illusion

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.

All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

If someone had looked just the right way, they'd have seen how the very water itself took form and reached toward the shore with grasping hands.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.

On dit souvent qu'il faut sauver les apparences. Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le seul moyen d'être sauvé.

Les contes de fées n'existent que dans les contes de fées. La vérité est plus décevante. La vérité est toujours décevante, c'est pourquoi tout le monde ment.

C'est donc cela, la vie d'adulte ; construire des châteaux de sable puis sauter dessus à pieds joints, et recommencer l'action, encore et encore, alors qu'on sait bien que les océans les auraient effacées de toute façon ?

ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n'est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l'est pas; alors on fait semblant.

Tõde valmistab alati pettumuse, sellepärast kõik valetavadki.

Dragostea este singura deceptie programata, singura nenorocire previzibila, pe care o vrei mereu si mereu.

Basmele nu exista decat in basme. Adevarul este mai dezamagitor. Adevarul este intotdeauna dezamagitor, de-aia minte toata lumea.

Ljubav nam ostavlja taj privid da ne haje nizašta, a u stvari i te kako haje. Ljubav, to zna?i tražiti se a ne na?i se. Ta mala igra, ako se upražnjava na pravi na?in, može ?oveku da ispuni ceo život.

A? vrea s? tr?iesc în lumea virtual?, dar am s? mor în cea real?.

Miopia este ultimul t?u lux. Totul este minunat de vaporos, ca într-un videoclip. Totul este de suprafa??.

Les contes de fées n'existent que dans les contes de fées

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Magic" was not an answer; it was an excuse to avoid looking for one.

In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking out of one. All these centuries his mind, his body, his world had been a box of horrors. He took one last breath, then pushed open the lid of his prison and escaped.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.