Quotes About Illusion

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one's view, knocked away facades.

I needed to understand that maybe sometimes we go through life seeing only what we want to see.

Everything's perfect." I want to kick myself for using that word, because nothing's ever perfect.

It was difficult to believe that twenty-four hours ago, my life had seemed almost perfect. I had been in love with an amazing man, and I had thought I was about to become engaged—that we would start a family together, and I'd be happy at last. But maybe I wasn't meant to be happy. Or to be a mother. Maybe the universe was just teasing me, letting me float briefly up to the clouds to enjoy the view from there, only to slam me back down to earth and rub my face in the dirt.

Puck's eyes gleamed, feral and menacing. Oh, I don't know, princess. Maybe it was because I was stupid enough to care about you. Maybe I actually thought I had a chance. Silly me, thinking that one little kiss meant anything to you.

Marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

What you see, isn't always what you get

That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.

The surface didn't always tell the full story. A carefully constructed façade could hide a myriad of secrets.

One thing about public opinion is you can turn it in an instant with the right illusion.

She remembers that everything she remembers is not necessarily true.

She remembers that today is Sunday, which six days out of seven is not true.

You said I was all you'd ever need Love is blind and little did I know That you were just another dead-end road Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams

Nature is only another chimera.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Cómo podía yo sospechar que aquello que parecía tan mentira era verdadero...

Como no sabías disimular me dí cuenta enseguida de que para verte como yo quería era necesario empezar por cerrar los ojos.

La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.